Paddle

Definition of Paddle

Pad´dle

v. i.

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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.

As the men were paddling for their lives.

- L'Estrange.

While paddling ducks the standing lake desire.

- Gay.

v. t.

To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

[imp. & p. p. Paddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Paddling ]

To be paddling palms and pinching fingers.

- Shak.

To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

To pad; to tread upon; to trample.

To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; - usually as a disciplinary punishment of children.

To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a paddle.

An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made;

Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon.

- Deut. xxiii. 13.

One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - also called clough.

(Zool.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing.

See Paddle staff (b), below.

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.
b -	A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; - called also plow staff.

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.

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