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Paddle   /pˈædəl/   Listen
noun
Paddle  n.  
1.
An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
2.
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, Any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle, such as that used in table tennis. "Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon."
3.
One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
4.
A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; also called clough.
5.
(Zool.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
6.
A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing.
7.
See Paddle staff (b), below. (Prov. Eng.)
Paddle beam (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel.
Paddle board. See Paddle, n., 3.
Paddle shaft, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
Paddle staff.
(a)
A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. (Prov. Eng.)
(b)
A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; called also plow staff. (Prov. Eng.)
Paddle steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller.
Paddle wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length.


verb
Paddle  v. t.  (past & past part. paddled; pres. part. paddling)  
1.
To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. (Obsolescent) "To be paddling palms and pinching fingers."
2.
To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
3.
To pad; to tread upon; to trample. (Prov. Eng.)
4.
To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; usually as a disciplinary punishment of children.
5.
To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a paddle.


Paddle  v. i.  
1.
To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. (Obs.)
2.
To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. "As the men were paddling for their lives." "While paddling ducks the standing lake desire."





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"Paddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... fast, that in a minute or two they could distinguish plainly that it was, in fact, a tiny bark canoe. One Indian woman, seated at the end, seemed to be its only occupant; the repeated flashes of sunlight on her paddle showed how quick and dexterous were its movements as she steered straight for the landing ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... way out into the Saint's Pool, and then leaned back against the white cushions, and looked up at the blue sky, and let her hand trail in the water. But she was restless to-day. The Pool did not suffice her, and she began to paddle out along the coast towards Naples. She passed a ruined, windowless house named by the fisherfolk "The Palace of the Spirits," and then a tiny hamlet climbing up from a minute harbor to an antique church. Children called to ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens
... began Mr. Ackerman, "you must remember that paddle wheels had long been used, for both the Egyptians and the Romans had built galleys with oars that moved by a windlass turned by the hands of slaves or by oxen. Later there were smaller boats whose paddle wheels were driven ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... appeared to be unbroken shore breaks up into many passage ways. By one of these we enter, to find ourselves among a hundred isles. Each one is wooded to the water's edge, which often the trees overspread with outstretched boughs. Entranced, we paddle on until we leave behind all trace of ocean swell, and if the tide be low so that old sea-soaked snags are seen upon the shore, and boulders thick with barnacles and varied coloured sea-weeds in shades of brown and red, and here and there great clusters of blue mussel ...
— Indian Legends of Vancouver Island • Alfred Carmichael
... two months after the great trial, on a warm day in October, when Frank Merrill stepped ashore from the big white paddle boat which had carried him across Lake Leman from Lausanne, and, handing his bag to a porter, made his way to the hotel omnibus. He looked at his watch. It pointed to a quarter to four, and May was not due to arrive until half past. He went to his hotel, ...
— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace


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