Paddle

Definition of paddle:

part of speech: verb

To move with an oar or paddle.

part of speech: noun

A short broad oar, or blade; blade in the driving- wheel of a steamboat.

part of speech: noun

A short oar with a broad blade, used without a rowlock; one of the broad boards of a water wheel or of the paddle wheel of a steamship.

part of speech: verb

To dabble in water with the feet: to finger: to beat the water as with the feet, to row.

part of speech: verb

To move a canoe or rowboat by means of a short oar without a rowlock; to row slowly; play or wade in the water.

part of speech: verb

To row with a paddle.

part of speech: verb

To dabble in water with the feet.

part of speech: noun

A short, broad, spoon- shaped oar, used for moving canoes: the blade of an oar: one of the boards at the circumference of a paddle wheel: ( B.) a little spade.

Usage examples for paddle:

• Almost instantly the creature lifted its head so far above the surface that Ned dropped his paddle and seized the soft nose of the manatee with both hands. "Dick in the Everglades", A. W. Dimock.

• However these four find themselves afloat on a spar, which they paddle with their hands for several days until they reach the shore of Africa. "The Boy Slaves", Mayne Reid.

• A paddle lay on the sand just above the water mark. "The Doctor A Tale Of The Rockies", Ralph Connor.

• At length she joined him where the river flowed deep and smooth beneath the pines again; and, when she had taken her place and he dipped the paddle she turned to him. "The Gold Trail", Harold Bindloss.