Paddle

Definition: Paddle

Paddle

Noun

1. Small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games.

2. A blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel.

3. An instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board.

4. A short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat.

Verb

1. Propel with a paddle.

2. Play in or as if in water, as of small children.

3. Swim like a dog; in shallow water.

4. Walk unsteadily, as of small children.

5. Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking.

6. Stir with a paddle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "paddle" was first used: 1407. (references)

Computing

Chemical Industry

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Paddle

Conduct

Run a race, lead a life, play a game; take a course, adopt a course; steer one's course, shape one's course; play one's paint, play one's cards, shift for oneself; paddle one's own canoe; bail one's own boat.

Freedom

Verb: be free; Adjective: have scope; Noun: have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself.

Instrument

Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.

Journey

Walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.

Navigation

Ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.

Noun: navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron.

Crosswords: Paddle

When I was in China on the All-American Ping Pong team, I just loved playing ping-pong with my Flexolite ping pong paddle. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

I only doggy paddle. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

Gonna paddle a little behind (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Now that you brought that up, hang onto your paddle. And if you hit any rocks, don't hit 'em with your head (Deliverance; writing credit: James Dickey)

And you must always be extremely careful of your paddle movements (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

That paddle wheel thumpin' (Black Water; performing artist: Doobie Brothers)

Without a paddle, you left to straddle (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast)

Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe. (references; author: unknown)

Paddle to the Sea (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Building Sweet Dream: An Ultralight Solo Canoe for Single & Double Paddle (reference)

• Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure (reference)

• Path of the Paddle (reference)

• Up the Amazon Without a Paddle (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Kid Paddle Magazine (reference)

• Paddle & Portage (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Family Paddle Rafting the New River (reference)

• Paddle to the Sea (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Paddle Wheelin' Along (reference)

• Without a Paddle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Bosch 1710A 4-1/2" 7.5 Amp Small Angle Grinder with Paddle Switch (reference)

• DeWalt DW402 4-1/2" 7.5 Amp Heavy Duty Small Angle Grinder with Paddle Switch (reference)

• DeWalt DW402G 4-1/2" 7.5 Amp Heavy Duty Small Angle Grinder with Paddle Switch and Ground Wire (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is a radiology technician preparing a 42 year old white woman for a mammogram. The technician is positioning the paddle that compresses the breast. The patient's face is turned towards the technician, away from the camera, and her right shoulder and breast are exposed. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

National Weather Service employee Sarah Roy up a creek, but with a paddle. Kayaking in a Patuxent River marsh. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Native Micronesian making a paddle with an adze for his outrigger canoe. Credit: Small World.

Rogue River - Rainie Falls, wild section. Paddle Raft at bottom of middle chute, 950 cfs. Credit: Louise Austermuchle.

Paddle raft in the Rogue River Hellgate Canyon. Credit: Becky Brown.

At Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, in 1863. She is flying the Confederate First National Flag aft. Note her feathering paddle wheel. Credit: NAVY.

In the Firth of Forth, Scotland, circa late 1918. A paddle tug is alongside. The Forth Bridge is in the distance. Credit: NAVY.

Common mode of whipping with the paddle. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spanish-American woman removing baked bread from outdoor earthen oven by means of a long wooden paddle. Near Taos, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Paddle wheel steamboat on river, New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I pursued with a paddle and he dived, but when he came up I was nearer than before

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The eggs become glued to the sticky tape or paddle and are identified by examination under a microscope. (references)

If pinworms are suspected, transparent adhesive tape (often called the "scotch tape test") or a pinworm paddle (supplied by your health care provider) are applied to the anal region. (references)

Human Rights

Solomon Islands

In September 1999, several paramilitary police officers in a speedboat shot and injured a man near shore; they followed him onto the shore, dragged him back into the water, and reportedly beat him to death with a paddle. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "paddle": boat paddle ♦ dog paddle ♦ double paddle ♦ go for a paddle ♦ have a paddle ♦ mixing paddle ♦ paddle beam ♦ paddle board ♦ paddle boat ♦ paddle box ♦ paddle one's own canoe ♦ paddle shaft ♦ paddle staff ♦ paddle steamer ♦ paddle wheel ♦ pingpong paddle ♦ rolling circle of a paddle wheel. Additional references.

Beginning with "paddle": paddle-boat, paddle-fish, paddle-less, paddle-like, paddle-powered, paddle-shaped, paddle-steamer, paddle-wheeler, paddle-wheels.

Ending with "paddle": cock-paddle, doggy-paddle, dog-paddle, double-paddle, hand-paddle.

Albanian

pallë (palm, sword), vozitje (oarage, row, rowing, stroke), vozit (row), vozis (row), rrem i shkurtër, qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hammer, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), lopatë dore, fletë turbine. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضرب (driver, drumstick, on, stick, striker, striking), ‏مجداف (fin), ‏مشى بخطى قصيرة, ‏مشى ببطء (fudge, linger on, slow), ‏غادوف, ‏حرك يديه و قدميه في الماء, ‏عجلة بريش, ‏عاقب (administer, blister, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, mete, penalize, punish, rap, recompense, strafe, suffer, trounce), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏جدف (curse, feather, profane, row), ‏إعتمد على نفسه فقط, ‏ريشة (feather, pencil, pinnule, plume, quill). (various references)

Bulgarian 

газя (flounder, jaw, puddle, tick off, trample, wade), плувам кучешката, перка (brace and bit, bucket, fin, flapper, palm, prop, propeller, vane), бухалка (bat, indian club, swatter), бухам (belabor, belabour, curry, hoot), бъркалка, бъркам (churn, make, mistake, mix, mix up, rabble, rouse, shuffle, stir), лопатка (float, float-board, scapula, shoulder blade, spade-bone), движа с колела за кораб, напердашвам (clobber, dress down, lace, lambaste, larrup, lather, pepper, skin, thrash, whale), щъпукам, гребло (grab, oar, rake, raker, scoop), карам кану с гребло, карам русалка с гребло, крак (foot, leg, peg, podium, shank, stilt), шляпам (flop about, slop about, slosh, splash, squelch, squish), цапам (daub, grime, mess, muck, puddle, soil, stain, sully), хилка за тенис на маса, наплесквам (bedaub, muddy). (various references)

Chinese 

槳 (oar), 桨 (Oar). (various references)

Czech

plácat (clap, patter), pádlovat, pádlo, veslo (oar, sweep), lopatka (blade, scapula, scoop, shoulder blade, shouvel, shovel, vane), batolit se (diddle, toddle). (various references)

Danish

pagaj, vinge (wing), vandstroemsmaaler, spredivinge (baffle, blade, scraper, vane), spatel (spatula), skraber (bug, disc scraper, doctor, doctor blade, doctor knife, drag hooks, dredge, flight, go-devil, knife, pig, pipeline cleaner, pipeline scraper, scraper, squeegee), skrabejern (flight, scraper), skovl (shovel), roereanordning (agitator), omroerer (agitation auger, mixer, rotor, stirrer, thimble), aare (blood vessel). (various references)

Dutch

schoep (blade), peddelen (pedal), door het water plassen. (various references)

Esperanto

padelo (blade), padeli. (various references)

Farsi 

پاروی پهن قایقرانی , پاروزدن (Oar, Row, Scull), وررفتن (Hangaround, Jauk, Meddle, Scamp, Toy, Twiddle), دست وپازدن , بیلچه (Shim, Shovel, Spade), باچوب پهن کتک زدن (Thwack), بادست نوازش کردن , باباله شناحرکت کردن . (various references)

Finnish

meloa (canoe, scull), mela, lasta (spatula, splint, trowel), kaulinlasta. (various references)

French

patauger, palette (palette, pallet), pagaie, barboter, aube (paddle board). (various references)

German

Paddel (foot), schaufel (blade, bucket, dustpan, fan, palm, scoop, scoopful, shovel, spade, vane), paddeln (canoe, dog paddle, to paddle). (various references)

Greek 

κουπί (oar). (various references)

Hebrew 

משוט (oar, scull), מבחש (ladle), לשכשך (dabble, slosh, splash, swash), להשתכשך (dabble). (various references)

Hungarian

pacskolás, hajókerék (paddle-wheel), kenuevező, kelepce (bailed hook, dead-fall, gin, net, nett, noose, pitfall, snare, trap), kajakevezõ, kajakevező (double paddle), kényelmesen evez (to paddle, to row at the paddle, to row slack), úszó (awash, bob, bobber, cork, fin, float, floating, floaty, natatorial, pontoon, quill, sludge, swimmer, swimming), iszap (dross, mud, ooze, posh, silt, slime, slob, sludge, slurry), lassú evezés, híg sár (sludge), evezõlapát kenuhoz, evező (oar, scull), evez (oar, pull, row, to ply the oars, to pull a boat, to pull an oar, to row, to scull, to scull a boat), úszószárny (fin, flapper, water wings), úszóhártyás láb, kényelmes evezés, sulykoló (drop hammer, rammer), vízikerék (paddle wheel, paddle-wheel, water wheel), vízben tocsogás, vízben járkálás, uszony (fin, flapper, flipper), totyogás (duck walk, toddle), kis zsiliptábla, tipegés, lapátkerék (bucket-wheel, paddle wheel, paddle-wheel), sárban tocsogás, sárban járkálás, motolla (reel, swift, windlass), mártogató evezőlapát, lubickolás, vízikerék-lapát, topogás (pitter patter). (various references)

Indonesian

pengayuh (oar, oarsman, rower), tongkat (cane, goad, staff, stick, truncheon, wand), mengayuh (cycle, row), kayuh (bicycle pedal), berkayuh (pedal). (various references)

Italian

pagaia, paletta (bat, dustpan, pallet, scoop, shovel, spade, trowel, vane), pala (blade, sail, shovel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ラウリン酸 (La Salle, Lacoste, lacrosse, lactose, lager beer, Laos, lasagna, lauric acid, lounge, loungewear, raccoon, racket, racquetball, radial, radial tire, radian, radium, radius, raglan, ragtime, rational, rationalism, rationalist, rationalization, round, round number, round robin, round table, rug, rugby, rugger), パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passenger, passing, passion, passionate, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."), 橈 (oar, scull), 櫂 (oar, scull). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ラケット (racket), パドル , かい (assembly, association, avail, being in between, buyer, buying, club, concerning oneself with, counter for occurrences, effect, -floor, large, low rank, lower order, mediation, meeting, mystery, oar, party, purchase, result, scull, shell, shellfish, stories, subordinate, the feelings of the people, together, use, wonder, worth). (various references)

Korean 

헤엄. (various references)

Manx

spaagey (pouch), spaagaghey, spaag (club, club cards, club foot, finger, foot of bird, hand of clock, hoof, spattle), ploddanagh (paddler), keaysley. (various references)

Pig Latin

addlepay.(various references)

Portuguese

pá (chuck, scoop, shovel, spade), chapinhar (dash, plash, splash). (various references)

Romanian

padelã, poartã de ecluzã (flood gate, lock gate), paletã (bat, blade, float, palette, pallet), palã (blade), aripã (arm, dash-board, fan, flipper, mudguard, pinion, sail, vane, wing), aripioarã (fin, wing, winglet), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), bate darabana, canotaj (boating, canoeing, oarsmanship, row, rowing), conduce cu vâslele, fãcãleţ (roller, stirrer), face o plimbare cu barcã, lopatã (float, oar, pallet, Peel, shovel, spade), mai (afresh, again, all over again, anew, another, approximative, beater, beetle, else, heh, heyday, I say, mallet, may, more, no, oh my, once more, rammer, really, rubbish, still), altoi (cutting, engraft, graft, grafting, ingraft, scion), merge prin apã, zbat, ramã (case, casement, casing, chase, frame, framework, oar, rail, rim), se bãlãbãni (dangle, flap, flop, stagger, swing), se bãlãci (flounder, mess, slush about, wallow), umbla ca raţa, vâslã (oar), vâsli cu o singurã lopatã, vâslit (row), merge legãnat (waddle). (various references)

Russian 

шлепать по воде, ковылять (dodder, stumble along, toddle, totter), грести весло, гребок (rabble, strickle), гребля (boating, canoeing, oarage, pull, row, rowing), весло (oar), затвор (bibb, bolt, breech-block, gate, hatch, penstock, plug, seal, shutter, water gate), лопасть (blade, palm, vane), ласт (flipper), байдарочное весло, плыть на байдарке, плескаться (dabble, lap, splash, wash), плавник (driftwood, fin, flipper). (various references)

Scottish

spleadhan (a sort of wooden paddle to dig up sand eels), spadal (a paddle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veslo (oar, scull), veslati (pull, row, scull, wave), reket (protection, racket, racquet), lopatica (blade, ember goose, scapula, scoop, shoulder blade, spatula), batina (bludgeon, club, cudgel, rod, stick). (various references)

Spanish

zagual, paleta (battledore, blade, ice lolly, palette, pallet, spreader, trowel). (various references)

Swedish

paddla (canoe), paddel. (various references)

Turkish

pala (broadsword, cutlass, machete, scimitar, scimiter, sword), tokaç (beetle, laundry stick), kaplumbağa yüzgeci, kano kullanmak (canoe), kürek çekmek (go boating, oar, pull, pull oar, row, scull, tub), kısa kürek, kıça şaplak atmak, bel (come, grubber, loin, loins, middle of the back, spade, thallium, waist, waistline), badi badi yürümek (shamble, waddle), ayaklarını suda oynatmak, çark kanadı. (various references)

Turkmen 

kьreklemek (row), kьrek (oar). (various references)

Ukrainian

хлюпатися (dabble, wash), гребок (strickle), лопать (palm, vane), байдарка (canoe, kayak), повільно веслувати, плавник, пливти на байдарці. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái giầm. (various references)

Welsh

slotian (dabble, tipple). (various references)

patella. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "paddle": paddleball, paddleballs, paddleboard, paddleboards, paddleboat, paddleboats, paddled, paddlefish, paddlefishes, paddler, paddlers, paddles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Paddle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baddel, daddle, laddel, Naddle, Paddee, paddel, padder, paddie, Padee, padel, padl, padle, padler, padly, padme, padoe, pandle, Peddie, pedle, pedule, pendle, piadle, piddley, piddly, pirdle, poddle, poddled, podule, praddle, Pradel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: addle, dedal, laded, padle, paled, pedal, plead.

-2 letters: aped, dale, dead, deal, lade, lead, leap, pale, peal, plea, pled.

-3 letters: add, ale, alp, ape, dad, dal, dap, del, eld, lad, lap, lea, led, pad, pal, pea, ped.

-4 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la, pa, pe.

+1 letter: dappled, paddled, paddler, paddles, pedaled, plaided, pleaded.

+2 letters: deplaned, paddlers, pedalled, pudendal, spraddle, uploaded.

+3 letters: applauded, depilated, dewlapped, diplomaed, displaced, displayed, impleaded, lapidated, padlocked, palisaded, placarded, pollarded, repleaded, spraddled, spraddles.

+4 letters: addlepated, dependable, dependably, depravedly, dilapidate, displanted, displeased, downplayed, duplicated, epididymal, flapdoodle, landscaped, lapidified, maladapted, mispleaded, packsaddle, paddleball, paddleboat, paddlefish, panhandled, paradiddle, pedestaled, quadrupled, stepladder.