different between sternwheeler vs paddleboat

English

From sternwheel +? -er.

sternwheeler (plural sternwheelers)

(nautical) A vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a single paddle wheel positioned at the stern
- 1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan 2012, p. 140:
  Williams's steamboat crossed paths with a boat that was at the start of its voyage upstream, a long, boxy sternwheeler with a funnel and pilothouse on its top deck.

paddle +? boat

paddleboat (plural paddleboats)

(nautical) A boat propelled by a paddle wheel
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (nautical, US, Canada, Australia) a pedalo

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