Paddle
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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 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]  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: paddle, 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, paddle, splash around] 3: swim like a dog in shallow water 4: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle] 5: give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: spank, paddle, larrup] 6: stir with a paddle  Paddle A language for transformations leading from specification to program. Used in the POPART programming environment generator. (1994-11-30)  paddle [pædl] Paddel; Spielkonsole  paddle [pædl] barboter; patauger  paddle evezô hajókerék hígsár iszap kajakevezô kelepce kenuevezô kiszsiliptábla kényelmesevezés lapátkerék lassúevezés lubickolás motolla mártogatóevezôlapát pacskolás sulykoló sárbanjárkálás sárbantocsogás tipegés topogás totyogás uszony vízbenjárkálás vízbentocsogás vízikerék-lapát vízikerék úszó úszóhártyásláb úszószárny  paddle [pædl] door het water plassen; peddelen; ploeteren blad van een roeiriem; schoep  paddle [pædl] chapinhar, patejar pá  paddle Falltor n (Schleuse) paddle Paddel n paddle Rührstange f; Kratze f paddle Spielkonsole f paddle Steuerknüppel m paddle paddeln; rudern paddle planschen paddle [Am.] verhauen  195 Moby Thesaurus words for "paddle": 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 Paddle related |
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