PADDLE
\pˈadə͡l], \pˈadəl], \p_ˈa_d_əl]\
Definitions of PADDLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
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a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
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small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
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stir with a paddle
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propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe"
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swim like a dog in shallow water
By Princeton University
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give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
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a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
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small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
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stir with a paddle
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propel with a paddle
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swim like a dog in shallow water
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
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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.
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To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
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To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
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An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
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The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
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One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
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A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
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A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
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See Paddle staff (b), below.
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A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - also called clough.
By Oddity Software
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To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
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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.
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To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
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To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
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An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
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The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
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One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
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A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
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A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
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A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - also called clough.
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See staff (b), below.
By Noah Webster.
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To move a canoe or rowboat by means of a short oar without a rowlock; to row slowly; play or wade in the water.
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A short oar with a broad blade, used without a rowlock; one of the broad boards of a water wheel or of the paddle wheel of a steamship.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To dabble in water with the feet: to finger: to beat the water as with the feet, to row.
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To move with an oar or paddle.
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A short, broad, spoon-shaped oar, used for moving canoes: the blade of an oar: one of the boards at the circumference of a paddle wheel: (B.) a little spade.
By Daniel Lyons
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A short broad oar, or blade; blade in the driving-wheel of a steamboat.
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To dabble in water with the feet.
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To row with a paddle.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A broad but short oar; the blade or broad part of an oar; a broad board at the circumference of a paddle-wheel.
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To row; to propel by an oar.
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To dabble in the water with the hands or feet; to finger.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To play in the water with the hands and feet; to beat the water, as with oars; to propel by an oar or paddle.
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A broad short oar used in propelling light boats.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. A sort of short oar with a broad blade;—hence the blade or the broad part of an oar or weapon;—one of the broad boards at the circumference of a water-wheel;—a small gate in sluices or lock-gates;—a paddle-shaped foot, as of the tortoise, crocodile, &c.
