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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a steamboat propelled by a turning screw, used largely on the Great Lakes.
Quotations
1853
Now, it is in our power by constructing a canal, to enable that propeller to proceed directly into Lake Champlain instead of stopping at Ogdensburgh. . . .
1870
In those days, there being no propellers or ferries of any kind, nearly every farmer along the river had his boat. . . .
1961
A relatively minor incident which provides a small window into Confederate activities, the subject of this study--the affair of the propeller Georgian, a vessel owned by a neutral British subject.