A Topical Dictionary: Search for Paddle

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Paddle \Pad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Paddling]
1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. [Obsolescent]
[1913 Webster]

To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
[1913 Webster]

3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]

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]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. --Deut.
xxiii. 13.
[1913 Webster]

3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference
of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
[1913 Webster]

4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off
water; -- also called clough.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Zool.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
[1913 Webster]

6. A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing.
[1913 Webster]

7. [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.]
See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]

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

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

As the men were paddling for their lives.
--L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]

While paddling ducks the standing lake desire.
--Gay.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet 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: 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,
splash around]
3: swim like a dog in shallow water
4: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle,
totter, dodder, waddle]
5: give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: spank, larrup]
6: stir with a paddle

Moby Dictionary
agitate , agitator , amble , asperge , barge , beat , beat up , beater ,
bedew , bespatter , besprinkle , birch , bowl along , bundle , cane ,
catch a crab , churn , churn up , club , clump , convulse , cut a crab ,
dabble , damp , dampen , dash , dew , disarrange , discompose , disquiet ,
disturb , douche , drag , dress down , droop , eggbeater , excite ,
feather , feather an oar , ferment , ferule , flax , flog , flounce ,
flurry , foot , footslog , fret , gait , gallop , give a dressing-down ,
give way , halt , hide , hippety-hop , hitch , hobble , hop , hose ,
hose down , humect , humectate , humidify , irrigate , jiggler , jog ,
jolt , jump , larrup , lather , leather , lick , limp , lock step , lumber ,
lunge , lurch , mince , mincing steps , moisten , oar , pace , pandybat ,
peg , perturb , perturbate , piaffe , piaffer , plod , ply the oar , pole ,
prance , pull , punt , rack , rattan , rile , ripple , rod , roil , roll ,
roughen , row , row away , row dry , ruffle , ruler , rumple , sashay ,
saunter , scuff , scuffle , scull , scuttle , shake , shake up , shaker ,
shamble , ship oars , shoot , shuffle , sidle , single-foot , skip ,
sky an oar , slink , slither , slobber , slog , slop , slosh , slouch ,
slowness , spank , sparge , spatter , splash , splatter , sponge , spray ,
sprinkle , stagger , stalk , stamp , steering oar , step , stick , stir ,
stir up , stomp , straddle , straggle , stride , stroll , strolling gait ,
strut , stump , swagger , swash , sweep , swing , swirl , switch , syringe ,
tan , thrash , tittup , toddle , totter , traipse , tread , trim , trip ,
trot , trouble , trudge , upset , velocity , vibrator , waddle , wade ,
walk , wallop , wamble , water , welt , wet , wet down , whale , whip ,
whip up , whisk , wiggle , wobble , work up

FOLDOC Paddle

A language for transformations leading from specification to
program. Used in the POPART programming environment
generator.

(1994-11-30)

English

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Verb

Translations