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1. 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.
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Clough \Clough\, n. [OE. clough, cloghe, clou, clewch, AS.
   (assumed) cl[=o]h, akin to G. klinge ravine.]
   1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. --Nares.
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   2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after
      depositing its sediment on the flooded land. --Knight.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Clough \Clough\ (?; 115), n. (Com.)
   An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cloff \Cloff\ (kl[o^]f; 115), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred
   weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only
   in a general sense, of small deductions from the original
   weight. [Written also clough.] --McCulloch.
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