Paddle

German Meaning

Paddel

Schaufel

Schläger

Schaufelrad

Rührschaufel

paddeln

rudern

planschen

watscheln

English Meaning

  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.