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pad·dle 1
(păd′l)n.
1. An implement with a flat blade at one or both ends, held in the hands without an oarlock and passed through the water to propel a small boat such as a canoe.
2. Any of various implements resembling the paddle of a boat or canoe, as:
a. Sports A light wooden or plastic racket used in playing table tennis, platform tennis, and similar games.
b. A flat board with a handle used to administer physical punishment.
c. A blade or shovellike implement used for stirring or mixing.
3. Medicine A flat electrode that is part of a defibrillator and is put on a patient's chest to deliver an electric shock to the heart.
4. A board on a paddle wheel.
5. A flipper or flattened appendage of certain animals.
6. Botany See pad1.
7. The act of paddling.
v. pad·dled, pad·dling, pad·dles
v.intr.
1. Nautical
a. To propel a watercraft with paddles or a paddle.
b. To row slowly and gently.
2. To move through water by means of repeated short strokes of the limbs.
v.tr.
1. Nautical
a. To propel (a watercraft) with paddles or a paddle.
b. To convey in a watercraft propelled by paddles.
2. To spank or beat with a paddle, especially as a punishment.
3. To stir or shape (material) with a paddle.
[Middle English padell, spadelike tool used to clean plowshares, hoe; perhaps akin to spatyl, spatula, from Old French spatule, from Latin spatula, flat piece of wood; see spatula.]
pad′dler n.
pad·dle 2
(păd′l)intr.v. pad·dled, pad·dling, pad·dles
1. To dabble about in shallow water; splash gently with the hands or feet.
2. To move with a waddling motion; toddle.
[Perhaps of Low German origin.]
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paddle
(ˈpædəl)n
1. (Rowing) a short light oar with a flat blade at one or both ends, used without a rowlock to propel a canoe or small boat
2. (Nautical Terms) Also called: float a blade of a water wheel or paddle wheel
3. (Rowing) a period of paddling: to go for a paddle upstream.
4. (Nautical Terms)
a. a paddle wheel used to propel a boat
b. (as modifier): a paddle steamer.
5. (Civil Engineering) the sliding panel in a lock or sluicegate that regulates the level or flow of water
6. any of various instruments shaped like a paddle and used for beating, mixing, etc
7. (Individual Sports, other than specified) a table-tennis bat
8. (Zoology) the flattened limb of a seal, turtle, or similar aquatic animal, specialized for swimming
vb
9. to propel (a canoe, small boat, etc) with a paddle
10. paddle one's own canoe
a. to be self-sufficient
b. to mind one's own business
11. (tr) to convey by paddling: we paddled him to the shore.
12. (tr) to stir or mix with or as if with a paddle
13. (Rowing) to row (a boat) steadily, esp (of a racing crew) to row firmly but not at full pressure
14. (intr) (of steamships) to be propelled by paddle wheels
15. (intr) to swim with short rapid strokes, like a dog
16. (tr) informal US and Canadian to spank
[C15: of unknown origin]
ˈpaddler n
paddle
(ˈpædəl)vb (mainly intr)
1. to walk or play barefoot in shallow water, mud, etc
2. to dabble the fingers, hands, or feet in water
3. to walk unsteadily, like a baby
4. (tr) archaic to fondle with the fingers
n
the act of paddling in water
[C16: of uncertain origin]
ˈpaddler n
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pad•dle1
(ˈpæd l)n., v. -dled, -dling. n.
1. a short, flat-bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usu. held by both hands and moved through a vertical arc.
2. any of various similar implements used for mixing, stirring, or beating.
3. a similarly shaped implement used to spank or beat someone.
4. a racket with a short handle and a wide, rounded blade, used in table tennis, paddle tennis, etc.
5. an implement used for beating garments while washing them in running water, as in a stream.
6. a blade of a paddle wheel.
8. a flipper or limb of a penguin, turtle, whale, etc.
9. an act of paddling.
v.i. 10. to propel or travel in a canoe or the like by using a paddle.
v.t. 11. to propel with a paddle.
12. to spank with or as if with a paddle.
13. to stir, mix, or beat with or as if with a paddle.
14. to hit (a ball) with a paddle.
[1400–50; late Middle English padell implement for cleaning a plowshare, of uncertain origin]
pad′dler, n.
pad•dle2
(ˈpæd l)v.i. -dled, -dling.
to move the feet or hands in water.
[1520–30; orig. uncertain]
pad′dler, n.
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paddle
- paddle - An aquatic animal's flipper can also be called a paddle—as can the foot of a duck or the wing of a penguin.
- patrol - Comes from a French word meaning "paddle about in the mud."
- rudder - First meant "paddle" or "oar."
- float - The boards and paddle of a waterwheel or paddlewheel are the floats.
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paddle
Past participle: paddled
Gerund: paddling
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| Noun | 1. |  paddle - small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various gamesbat - a club used for hitting a ball in various games |
| 2. |  paddle - a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheelmill wheel, millwheel - water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill paddle wheel, paddlewheel - a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | |
| 3. | paddle - an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board instrument of punishment - an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person | |
| 4. |  paddle - a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boatoar - an implement used to propel or steer a boat | |
| Verb | 1. | paddle - propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe" boat - ride in a boat on water |
| 2. | paddle - play in or as if in water, as of small children play - be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children; "The kids were playing outside all day"; "I used to play with trucks as a little girl" | |
| 3. | paddle - swim like a dog in shallow water aquatics, water sport - sports that involve bodies of water swim - travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" | |
| 4. |  paddle - walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"walk - use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" | |
| 5. |  paddle - give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | |
| 6. |  paddle - stir with a paddle stir - move an implement through; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil" |
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Translations
pádlopádlovatbrouzdatbrouzdat se
padlepagajsoppevadepaddel
mõla
melameloapiestäsiipisiipiratas
gacativeslativeslo
busla, skvamparóaróîraspaîi, kajakár
パドルパドルで漕ぐ水辺を歩く
노젓다첨벙거리며 다니다
airētairētiesbradātplunčātiessmailītes airis
pádlopádlovať
čofotatimahati s plavutmiveslativeslo
paddelpaddlavada
ไม้พายเรือพาย แจวพายเรือ
chèo xuồnglội nướcmái chèo
paddle
[ˈpædl]A. N
1. (= oar) → zagual m, pala f, remo m (LAm); (= blade of wheel) → paleta f; (= wheel) → rueda f de paletas
2. (US) (= bat) → raqueta f
3. to go for or have a paddle → ir a chapotear, ir a mojarse los pies
B. VT
3. to paddle one's feet in the sea → mojarse los pies en el mar
C. VI
2. (= walk in water) → mojarse los pies
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paddle
[ˈpædəl]Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
paddle
n
(= oar) → Paddel nt
(for mixing) → Rührschaufel f
Grandpa still enjoys a paddle → Opa plan(t)scht noch gern durchs Wasser; to go for a paddle, to have a paddle → durchs Wasser waten
(in table tennis) → Schläger m
vt
boat → paddeln
paddle
:paddle boat
n → Raddampfer m; (small, on pond) → Paddelboot nt
paddle box
n → Radkasten m
paddle steamer
n → Raddampfer m
paddle wheel
n → Schaufelrad nt
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
paddle1
(ˈpӕdl) verb to walk about in shallow water. The children went paddling in the sea.
paddle2
(ˈpӕdl) noun a short, light oar, often with a blade at each end of the shaft, used in canoes etc.
verb to move with a paddle. He paddled the canoe along the river.
ˈpaddle-steamer noun a boat driven by paddle-wheels.
ˈpaddle-wheel noun a large wheel fitted with flat pieces of wood, attached to the side or stern of a boat and turned to make it move through the water.
to paddle (not pedal) a canoe.
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paddle
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