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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
paddle
n 1: small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting
balls in various games
2: a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
3: an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
4: a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe
or small boat [syn: paddle, boat paddle]
v 1: propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe"
2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn:
dabble, paddle, splash around]
3: swim like a dog in shallow water
4: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
5: give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: spank,
paddle, larrup]
6: stir with a paddle
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Paddle \Pad"dle\, n. [See Paddle, v. i.]
1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a
fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
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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.
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Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. --Deut.
xxiii. 13.
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3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference
of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
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4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off
water; -- also called clough.
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5. (Zool.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
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6. A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing.
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7. [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.]
See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov. Eng.]
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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.
[1913 Webster] paddlebox
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Paddle \Pad"dle\, v. i. [Prob. for pattle, and a dim. of pat,
v.; cf. also E. pad to tread, Prov. G. paddeln, padden, to
walk with short steps, to paddle, G. patschen to splash,
dash, dabble, F. patouiller to dabble, splash, fr. patte a
paw. [root]21.]
1. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing
strokes. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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As the men were paddling for their lives.
--L'Estrange.
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While paddling ducks the standing lake desire.
--Gay.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Paddle \Pad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Paddling]
1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. [Obsolescent]
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To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. --Shak.
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2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
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3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]
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4. To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; -- usually
as a disciplinary punishment of children.
[PJC]
5. To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a
paddle.
[PJC]
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
Paddle
A language for transformations leading from specification to
program. Used in the POPART programming environment
generator.
(1994-11-30)
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Thesaurus Results for paddle:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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