Definitions for paddle

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paddle pad·dle

Spelling: [pad-l]

IPA: /ˈpæd l/

Paddle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in paddle (addelp).

Definitions for paddle

noun

1. a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
2. any of various similar implements used for mixing, stirring, or beating.
3. any of various similar but smaller implements with a short handle for holding in one hand and a wide or rounded blade, used for a racket in table tennis, paddle tennis, etc.
4. such an implement or a similarly shaped makeshift one, used to spank or beat someone.
5. an implement used for beating garments while washing them in running water, as in a stream.
6. Also called float, floatboard. a blade of a paddle wheel.
7. paddle wheel.
8. any of the blades by which a water wheel is turned.
9. a flipper or limb of a penguin, turtle, whale, etc.
10. an act of paddling.
11. Also, pattle. British Dialect. a small spade with a long handle, used to dig up thistles.
12. (in a gate of a lock or sluice) a panel that slides to permit the passage of water.

Idioms

1. paddle one's own canoe. canoe (def 6).

verb (used with object)

1. to propel with a paddle:
2. to spank or beat with or as with a paddle.
3. to stir, mix, or beat with or as with a paddle.
4. to convey by paddling, as a canoe.
5. to hit (a table-tennis ball or the like) with a paddle.

verb (used without object)

1. to propel or travel in a canoe or the like by using a paddle.
2. to row lightly or gently with oars.
3. to move by means of paddle wheels, as a steamer.
4. to move the feet or hands playfully in shallow water; dabble.
5. to toy with the fingers.
6. to toddle.

Origin of paddle

1375-1425; late Middle English padell (noun)

Examples for paddle

Then, setting the canoe into the water, he began to paddle back.

His paddle had “FAH-Q” painted on one side, and “O.B./Badass” painted on the other.

Then, without a word, they resumed their steady, easy swing of the paddle.

What do you call it when a husband beats his wife with a paddle for disobeying him?

Ever obliging, Springsteen then flexed all the right things on a paddle board.

It was laid by the Monarch, a paddle steamer which had been fitted for the work.

Neither of them spoke, and the only sound was the swishing of the paddle.

Others plan where to paddle into the surf off Black's Beach to catch a wave when the big breakers start rolling in.

"One of us might paddle the canoe to the foot of the cliff," went on Frank.

I have good balance, but it was basically the first time I had ever been on a paddle board.