[U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme^, trireme; stern-wheeler

A chunky stern-wheeler, with blow-off valve hissing, stood by a boom of logs in the bay, and men were moving back and forth across the swifters, making all ready for a tow.

Not without trouble and a thorough drenching he discovered a decrepit four-wheeler.

It was just the kind of steamer, any one would say, to be running on the Chuckatucka fat, wheezy side-wheeler that came up to its landing near us with three hearty whistles and such a jovial puffing as seemed to say, "Now, I'm certainly mighty glad to get back again to you all.

A very few can drive what they call a stage (Anglicè, drag) with grave and well-educated wheelers, on a very straight roadsuch as do this are looked upon as heroesshoot a hare sitting, also tom-tits and sparrows.

The boat we went by was the same little side-wheeler we had come down on, crowded with wounded now, mud-stained, blood-stained, just as they had come from the trenches across the water, with no place to lie but the bare deck.

Then, too, Ben would often help "Scotty" by taking Baldy and several of the steady dogs out, to give the former as much experience in the wheel as possible; for Baldy was being seriously considered as a permanent wheeler in the Racing Team.

The ferry is a primitive side-wheeler, which might carry two automobiles, but hardly more.

" Kent clambered to the footplate of the smart eight-wheeler.

It was a government buoy-tender, an awkward side-wheeler with a derrick forward, and big red sticks and black ones lying on deck.

It was just the kind of steamer, any one would say, to be running on the Chuckatucka fat, wheezy side-wheeler that came up to its landing near us with three hearty whistles and such a jovial puffing as seemed to say, "Now, I'm certainly mighty glad to get back again to you all.