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paddle box
noun
An enclosed structure around a paddlewheel.
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When he could no longer render assistance to those still on board, he climbed with his young son to his command post atop the starboard paddle box, and waited for the end.
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If the driver has a heavy commute, plans to lease the S for a couple of years and does not care about the poor guy who eventually shells out to replace the PDK's clutch pack, then the $3,200 flappy-paddle box is justified.
"My new fear was that the paddle-boxes would be stove into matchwood (this actually happened to the Ostend boat that same night about 40 miles away) and naked paddle wheels are rather dangerous things".
We investigated the planning abilities of captive orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) using the paddle-box.
We presented 4- to 10-year-old children (N = 172) with two planning tasks (sequential planning and advance planning) using the paddle-box apparatus, which was originally designed to investigate the planning skills of nonhuman apes.
Surprisingly, neither of these measures improved the performance of children in any of the age groups, suggesting that, contrary to our prediction, inhibitory control might not be a key performance-limiting factor in the advance planning paddle-box task.
Despite the shock, Luce was able to clamber on to the paddle-box, which provided a temporary raft for him and eleven others.
As he struggled, a section of one of Arctics paddle-boxes rose to the surface, delivering him a glancing blow but striking and killing his son outright.
When he successfully identified a size or shape by touching the paddle outside the box that corresponded to the one that had made the wake within, he was rewarded with a herring snack.
The next day, in the hard light of the afternoon, I visit the remains of the shack to see what the family abandoned to Emerald Drop Lake: a man's left boot, half a broken Ping-Pong paddle, an empty box that says, in English, "Ladies Socks," a math examination paper, written in a young girl's hand, with the score at the top in bright-red ink — sixty-two per cent.
Kites: Stanmer Park, Paddling: Brighton Beach Soap Box Derby, Hinckley, Sun Intrepid drivers in a potentially lethal career down a hilly street.
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