Thesaurus: paddle

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1. v. i. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
2. v. i. To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.
3. v. t. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
4. v. t. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
5. v. t. To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
6. v. i. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
7. v. i. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
8. v. i. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
9. v. i. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
10. v. i. A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
11. v. i. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
12. v. i. See Paddle staff (b), below.