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pad⋅dle

1  [pad-l] noun, verb, -dled, -dling.
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–noun
1. a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
2. any of various similar implements used for mixing, stirring, or beating.
3. any of various similar but smaller implements with a short handle for holding in one hand and a wide or rounded blade, used for a racket in table tennis, paddle tennis, etc.
4. such an implement or a similarly shaped makeshift one, used to spank or beat someone.
5. an implement used for beating garments while washing them in running water, as in a stream.
6. Also called float, floatboard. a blade of a paddle wheel.
7. paddle wheel.
8. any of the blades by which a water wheel is turned.
9. a flipper or limb of a penguin, turtle, whale, etc.
10. an act of paddling.
11. Also, pattle. British Dialect. a small spade with a long handle, used to dig up thistles.
12. (in a gate of a lock or sluice) a panel that slides to permit the passage of water.
–verb (used without object)
13. to propel or travel in a canoe or the like by using a paddle.
14. to row lightly or gently with oars.
15. to move by means of paddle wheels, as a steamer.
–verb (used with object)
16. to propel with a paddle: to paddle a canoe.
17. to spank or beat with or as with a paddle.
18. to stir, mix, or beat with or as with a paddle
19. to convey by paddling, as a canoe.
20. to hit (a table-tennis ball or the like) with a paddle.
—Idiom
21. paddle one's own canoe. canoe (def. 6).
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME padell (n.)

Related forms:
paddler, noun
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pad⋅dle

2  [pad-l]
–verb (used without object), -dled, -dling.
1. to move the feet or hands playfully in shallow water; dabble.
2. to toy with the fingers.
3. to toddle.
Origin:
1520–30; orig. uncert.

Related forms:
paddler, noun
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pad 1   (pād)   
n.  

  1. A thin, cushionlike mass of soft material used to fill, to give shape, or to protect against jarring, scraping, or other injury.

  2. A flexible saddle without a frame.

  3. An ink-soaked cushion used to ink a rubber stamp.

  4. A number of sheets of paper of the same size stacked one on top of the other and glued together at one end; a tablet.

    1. The broad floating leaf of an aquatic plant such as the water lily.

    2. The flattened fleshy stem of a cactus such as certain varieties of prickly pear. Also called paddle1.

    3. The cushionlike flesh on the underpart of the toes and feet of many animals.

    4. The foot of such an animal.

    5. A launch pad.

    6. A helipad.

    1. The cushionlike flesh on the underpart of the toes and feet of many animals.

    2. The foot of such an animal.

    3. A launch pad.

    4. A helipad.

  7. The fleshy underside of the end of a finger or toe.

    1. A launch pad.

    2. A helipad.

  9. A keypad.

  10. Slang One's apartment or room.

tr.v.   pad·ded, pad·ding, pads

  1. To line or stuff with soft material.

  2. To lengthen or increase, especially with extraneous or false information: pad a lecture with jokes; pad an expense account.


[Origin unknown.]
pad'less adj.
pad·dle 1   (pād'l)   
n.  

  1. A usually wooden implement having a blade at one end or sometimes at both ends, used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat.

  2. Any of various implements resembling the paddle of a boat or canoe, as:

    1. An iron tool for stirring molten ore in a furnace.

    2. A tool with a shovellike blade used to mix materials in glassmaking.

    3. A potter's pallet.

    4. A narrow board used to beat clothes when laundering by hand.

    5. A flattened board used to administer physical punishment.

    6. Sports A light wooden or plastic racket used in playing table tennis, platform tennis, and similar games.

  3. A board on a paddle wheel.

  4. A flipper or flattened appendage of certain animals.

  5. Botany See pad1.

  6. The act of paddling.

v.   pad·dled, pad·dling, pad·dles

v.   intr.

  1. Nautical

    1. To propel a watercraft with paddles or a paddle.

    2. To row slowly and gently.

  2. To move through water by means of repeated short strokes of the limbs.

v.   tr.

  1. Nautical

    1. To propel (a watercraft) with paddles or a paddle.

    2. To convey in a watercraft propelled by paddles.

  2. To spank or beat with a paddle, especially as a punishment.

  3. To stir or shape (material) with a paddle.


[Middle English padell, tool used to clean plowshares, perhaps from Medieval Latin padela.]
pad'dler n.
pad·dle 2   (pād'l)   
intr.v.   pad·dled, pad·dling, pad·dles

  1. To dabble about in shallow water; splash gently with the hands or feet.

  2. To move with a waddling motion; toddle.


[Perhaps of Low German origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

paddle  (n.)
1407, padell "small spade," from M.L. padela, perhaps from L. patella "pan, plate," dim. of patina. Meaning "short oar with a wide blade" is from 1624. As an instrument used for beating clothes (and slaves, and schoolboys), it is recorded from 1828, Amer.Eng.; the verb meaning "to beat with a paddle, spank" is first recorded 1856. Paddlewheel is from 1805.

paddle  (v.)
"to dabble, wade in water," 1530, probably cognate with Low Ger. paddeln "tramp about," freq. of padjen "to tramp, to run in short steps," from pad (v.). Meaning "to move in water by means of paddles" (1677) is a different word, from paddle (n.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pad·dle
Pronunciation: 'pad-&l
Function: noun
: a flat disk-shaped electrode with an insulated handle that is usedespecially to apply a shock of electricity to defibrillate a patient experiencing an abnormal heart rhythm called also paddle electrode
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

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

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

paddle

In addition to the idiom beginning with paddle, also see up the creek (without a paddle).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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