| Paddle |
v. i. |
To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
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. |
| Paddle |
v. t. |
To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. |
| Paddle |
v. t. |
To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles. |
| Paddle |
v. t. |
To pad; to tread upon; to trample. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water;
also called clough. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
See Paddle staff (b), below. |
| Paddlecock |
n. |
The lumpfish. |
| Paddled |
imp. & p. p. |
of Paddle |
| Paddlefish |
n. |
A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. |
| Paddlewood |
n. |
The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks. |
