paddle box


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Noun1.paddle box - a wooden covering for the upper part of a paddlewheel
paddle-box
covering - an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
paddle wheel, paddlewheel - a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat
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Louis at four in the afternoon, and she stood on the lower guard abaft the paddle box and watched Tom through a blur of tears until he melted into the throng of people and disappeared; then she looked no more, but sat there on a coil of cable crying till far into the night.
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They have now returned to the wreck with cameras and despite the darkness 200ft below the surface, the pictures clearly show the curved framework of a paddle box.
Divers' reveal photos of Waverley shipwreck
The vessel was named after Sir Walter Scott's first novel Waverley and has a portrait of the story's main protagonist, Edward Waverley, on its paddle boxes.
Historic paddle steamer sails again after eight-year absence; They have been one of the most enduring features of Welsh tourism for more than a century. Now, after an almost decade-long absence, pleasure cruises on the world's last surviving paddle steamer are to resume in Llandudno, North Wales. Darren Devine reports

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