[pat-l, paht-l] 
[pad-l] noun, verb, -dled, -dling.| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 21. | paddle one's own canoe. canoe (def. 6). |
