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n. a wooden covering for the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel.

n. The box or sheath, of curved upper outline, which covers a paddle-wheel of a side-wheel steamer, to protect it and to keep it from throwing water on board the vessel.

n. a wooden covering for the upper part of a paddlewheel

n. a wooden covering for the upper part of a paddlewheel

"The stout old pilot was the real skipper; and now that the vessel had come to anchor, he turned from his lighter duties to the grave pastime of the day, and fished earnestly through a large hole in the paddlebox, -- the porgies that came to his allurements arriving at their destination by a series of flapping manoeuvres from blade to blade of the wheel."

paddle box   

covering   

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