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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Paddle \Pad"dle\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Paddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paddling}]
1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. [Obsolescent]
To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. --Shak.
2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]
4. To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; -- usually as a disciplinary punishment of children. [PJC]
5. To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a paddle. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Paddle \Pad"dle\, verb (used without an object) [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.
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.
As the men were paddling for their lives. --L'Estrange.
While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. --Gay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Paddle \Pad"dle\, noun [See {Paddle}, verb (used without an object)]
1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle, such as that used in table tennis.
Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. --Deut. xxiii. 13.
3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called {clough}.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
6. A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing.
7. [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.] See {Paddle staff} (b), below. [Prov. Eng.]
{Paddle beam} (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel.
{Paddle board}. See {Paddle}, noun, 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
paddle
noun
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: {boat paddle}]
verb
1: propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe"
2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn: {dabble}, {splash around}]
3: swim like a dog in shallow water
4: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: {toddle}, {coggle}, {totter}, {dodder}, {waddle}]
5: give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: {spank}, {larrup}]
6: stir with a paddle
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Paddle A language for transformations leading from specification to program. Used in the {POPART} programming environment generator. (1994-11-30)
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