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• n  a paddle steamer having a paddle wheel on each side

• The side-wheeler Brinckerhoff, veteran of 41 years on the Hudson River, carried the quiet group through the river-damp darkness, across the stream and back.
• The jet liner and the telex cable have replaced the side-wheeler and the raft.
• In Perry County, where the population is just nine people per square mile, the Toad Suck Ferry, a side-wheeler operated by the state, moves lazily from willowed bank to willowed .