paddle

[ US /ˈpædəɫ/ ]
[ UK /pˈædə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. play in or as if in water, as of small children
  2. swim like a dog in shallow water
  3. propel with a paddle
    paddle your own canoe
  4. walk unsteadily
    small children toddle
  5. stir with a paddle
  6. give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
NOUN
  1. small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
  2. a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
  3. an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
  4. a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
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How To Use paddle In A Sentence

  • We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
  • The four of us stayed for a couple of nights in the Rest House at Takoradi, which gave us a few hours to walk the beaches and paddle in the ocean, and to luxuriate in the fresh sea breezes after the heavy atmosphere of the interior.
  • I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
  • Ship the pole, duck and use the paddle if you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times
  • With a quick catch and lift, he passed Michael up and into unseen hands outstretched from the iron wall of the ship, and paddled ahead to an open cargo port. CHAPTER 2
  • As the two little craft pulled through the Gap, Guardian received a salute of raised paddles from the canoe, the tender lifting its oars on the gunwales for one stroke before resuming its rhythm.
  • I used to go swimming, play paddleball and all kinds of little games at the gym, but no more.
  • These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle, 'the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball, which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
  • Restoration of the paddle steamer will involve stripping the entire front third of the vessel before repairing the hull and refurbishing the engines.
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