paddle
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Definitions ofpaddle
- A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
- A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
- Time spent on paddling.
Example: "We had a nice paddle this morning."
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- A paddlewheel.
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
- A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
- A bat-shaped spanking implement
Example: "The paddle practically ousted the British cane for spankings in the independent US."
- A ping-pong bat.
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
Example: "A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow."
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- A group of inerts
- A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode
- Hand
- Padel (sport)
- To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- To spank with a paddle.
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- To tread upon; to trample.
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