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Paddle   /pˈædəl/   Listen
Paddle

noun
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.  Synonym: boat paddle.
verb
(past & past part. paddled; pres. part. paddling)
1.
Propel with a paddle.
2.
Play in or as if in water, as of small children.  Synonyms: dabble, splash around.
3.
Swim like a dog in shallow water.
4.
Walk unsteadily.  Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle.
5.
Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking.  Synonyms: larrup, spank.
6.
Stir with a paddle.



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"Paddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... passengers and the crew cheered first one and then the other, till they could not speak for laughing. The husband was all but caught once; but a benevolent passenger kicked a camp-stool in the lady's way, and he got a fresh start, which he utilized by climbing up the ladder to the paddle-box. His wife tried to follow him, but the shouts of laughter which the black men raised at seeing her performances were too much for her, and she came down again. Here the captain interposed, and put her ashore, where she ...
— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor
... have ever been taken in this way with spoon or minnow above this point, in spite of the number of years that fishing has been carried on in these waters. The Indians never catch salmon by trolling with the spoon, though they troll persistently for trout, the line being fastened to the paddle of ...
— Fishing in British Columbia - With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina • Thomas Wilson Lambert
... coming of this guest to us!" cried Cuchulain. "We know the man; it is my master Fergus that cometh hither. [7]Empty is the great paddle that my master Fergus carries," said Cuchulain; "for there is no sword in its sheath but a sword of wood. For I have heard," Cuchulain continued, "that Ailill got a chance at him and Medb as they lay, and he took ...
— The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge • Unknown
... handsome steamer was the "Empire State," of the line which ran between Newport and New York. She was painted white, had walking-beam engines, and ornamented paddle-boxes, and had been known to run nearly twenty knots in an hour. On the evening of the twenty-seventh of May, in the year of which we write, she left her Newport dock as usual, with a full list of passengers. On ...
— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne
... the world I'd be worth twice as much. Fabian was good as far as he went, but he was a coward. You"— a look of fury entered the dark eyes—"you were no coward, but you didn't care a damn. You wanted to paddle about with muck of imagination—" he pointed to ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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