Word Meanings - WHEELER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler. 5. A worker on sewed muslin. (more info) 1. One who wheels, or turns. 2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright. 3.

Additional info about word: WHEELER

A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler. 5. A worker on sewed muslin. (more info) 1. One who wheels, or turns. 2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright. 3. A wheel horse. See under Wheel.

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• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• PADDLER
  One who, or that which, paddles.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• STEAM
  1. To emit steam or vapor. My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air. Dryden. Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming with fire intence. J. Philips. 2. To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass
• STERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
• PROPELLER
  1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
• STERNSMAN
  A steersman.
• PADDLEFISH
  A large ganoid fish found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.
• STERNMOST
  Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
• STERNOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
• STERNSON
  The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
• TURNSPIT
  A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting. (more info) 1. One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. His lordship
• TURNSOLE
  + sole the sun, L. sol. See Turn, Solar, a., and cf. A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. The sunflower. A kind of spurge . The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• STERNAGE
  Stern. Shak.
• STERNNESS
  The quality or state of being stern.
• MUSLIN
  A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric. -- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. See Delaine. (more
• STERNOCOSTAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• SPADDLE
  A little spade.
• PROSTERNATION
  Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.