Paddle

English Meaning

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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:
3. An iron tool for stirring molten ore in a furnace.
4. A tool with a shovellike blade used to mix materials in glassmaking.
5. A potter's pallet.
6. A narrow board used to beat clothes when laundering by hand.
7. A flattened board used to administer physical punishment.
8. Sports A light wooden or plastic racket used in playing table tennis, platform tennis, and similar games.
9. A board on a paddle wheel.
10. A flipper or flattened appendage of certain animals.
11. Botany See pad1.
12. The act of paddling.
13. Nautical To propel a watercraft with paddles or a paddle.
14. Nautical To row slowly and gently.
15. To move through water by means of repeated short strokes of the limbs.
16. Nautical To propel (a watercraft) with paddles or a paddle.
17. Nautical To convey in a watercraft propelled by paddles.
18. To spank or beat with a paddle, especially as a punishment.
19. To stir or shape (material) with a paddle.
20. To dabble about in shallow water; splash gently with the hands or feet.
21. To move with a waddling motion; toddle.