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Paddle
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
(2):
(v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - also called clough.
(3):
(v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
(4):
(v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
(5):
(v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
(6):
(v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
(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.
(8):
(v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
(9):
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
(10):
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
(11):
(v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.
(12):
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Paddle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/paddle.html. 1828.
