Definitions for the word "Paddle" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. i.
To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. i.
See Paddle staff (b), below.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
1 short broad-bladed oar used without a rowlock. 2 paddle-shaped instrument. 3 fin, flipper. 4 board on a paddle-wheel or mill-wheel. 5 action or spell of paddling. v. (-ling) 1 move on water or propel a boat by paddles. 2 row gently. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
14. v.
(-ling) walk barefoot, or dabble the feet or hands, in shallow water. n. Act of paddling. [probably low german or dutch]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. slang
to go or run away.—_American._
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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