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Paddle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An oar, but not a large oar. It is now applied to a sort of short oar used in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

2. The blade or the broad part of an oar or weapon.

3. Thou shalt have a paddle on thy weapon. Deuteronomy 23:13 .

Paddle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To row; to beat the water, as with oars.

2. To play in the water with the hands, as children; or with the feet, as fowls or other animals.

3. To finger.

Paddle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To propel by an oar or paddle

Paddle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

4. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.

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

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

7. A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

8. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.

9. See Paddle staff (b), below.

Paddle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

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

3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample.

Paddle-staff [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A staff headed with broad iron.

Paddlecock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The lumpfish.

Paddled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Paddle

Paddlefish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

Paddler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

On that paddles.

Paddlewood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.