paddle

Meaning of paddle

noun
  1. A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
  2. A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
  3. Time spent on paddling.
    We had a nice paddle this morning.
  4. A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
  5. A paddlewheel.
  6. A blade of a waterwheel.
  7. A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
  8. A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
  9. A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
  10. A bat-shaped spanking implement
    The paddle practically ousted the British cane for spankings in the independent US.
  11. A ping-pong bat.
  12. A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
    A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow.
  13. In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
  14. A group of inerts
  15. A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode
  16. Hand
  17. Padel (sport)
verb
  1. To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
  2. To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
  3. To spank with a paddle.
  4. To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
  5. To tread upon; to trample.
verb
  1. To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
  2. To toddle.
  3. To toy or caress using hands or fingers.

Information about paddle

Hyphenation of paddle

pad-dle

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • paddle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

paddle synonyms

Meaning dabble:

dabble

Meaning toddle:

toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, waddle

Meaning spank:

spank, larrup

Translation of paddle

Words that rhyme with paddle

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