meaning of paddles

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


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