meaning of paddle
1. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
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.
3. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
4. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
5. To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
6. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
7. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
8. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
9. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
10. A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
11. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
12. See Paddle staff (b), below.
13. Paddle A language for transformations leading from specification to program. Used in the POPART programming environment generator.
14. a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
Related Words
paddle | paddle box | paddle steamer | paddle wheel | paddle-box | paddle-wheeler | paddlecock | paddled | paddlefish | paddler | paddlewheel | paddlewood |
