What (who) is paddle - definition

TOOL USED FOR PUSHING AGAINST LIQUIDS, AS A FORM OF PROPULSION IN A BOAT

Paddles; Boat paddle; Kayak paddle; Canoe paddle

Paddle

·vi ·see Paddle staff (b), below.

II. Paddle ·vt To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

III. Paddle ·vi A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

IV. Paddle ·vi A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.

V. Paddle ·vt To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

VI. Paddle ·vi To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

VII. Paddle ·vt To Pad; to tread upon; to Trample.

VIII. Paddle ·vi A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water;

- also called clough.

IX. Paddle ·vi One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

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

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

XII. Paddle ·vi 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.

Paddle

A language for transformations leading from specification to program. Used in the POPART programming environment generator. (1994-11-30)

paddle

(paddles, paddling, paddled)

A paddle is a short pole with a wide flat part at one end or at both ends. You hold it in your hands and use it as an oar to move a small boat through water.

We might be able to push ourselves across with the paddle.

N-COUNT

If you paddle a boat, you move it through water using a paddle.

...the skills you will use to paddle the canoe.

...paddling around the South Pacific in a kayak.

VERB: V n, V prep/adv

If you paddle, you walk or stand in shallow water, for example at the edge of the sea, for pleasure.

Wear sandals when you paddle.

...a lovely little stream that you can paddle in.

VERB: V, V prep

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Paddle is also a noun.

Ruth enjoyed her paddle.

N-SING

Wikipedia

Paddle

A paddle is a handheld tool with an elongated handle and a flat, widened distal end (i.e. the blade), used as a lever to apply force onto the bladed end. It most commonly describes a completely handheld tool used to propel a human-powered watercraft by pushing water in a direction opposite to the direction of travel (i.e. paddling). It is different to an oar (which is similar in shape and performs the same function via rowing) in that the latter is attached to the watercraft via a fulcrum.

However, the term "paddle" can also be used to describe objects of similar shapes or functions:

A rotating set of paddle boards known as a paddle wheel is used to propel a steamboat (i.e. paddle steamer).
A number of games (e.g. ping-pong), a "paddle" or "bat" is a small racket used to strike a ball.
A mixing paddle is an agitator device used to stir and more thoroughly mix separate ingredients within a mixture.
A spanking paddle is used in corporal punishment, typically to forcefully hit someone (e.g. a juvenile) on the buttocks.

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