pad•dleˈpæd l(n.; v.)-dled, -dling.

1. (n.)a short, flat-bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usu. held by both hands and moved through a vertical arc.

   Category: Nautical, Navy

2. any of various similar implements used for mixing, stirring, or beating.

3. a similarly shaped implement used to spank or beat someone.

4. a racket with a short handle and a wide, rounded blade, used in table tennis, paddle tennis, etc.

5. an implement used for beating garments while washing them in running water, as in a stream.

6. a blade of a paddle wheel.

   Category: Nautical, Navy

7. Category: Nautical, Navy

   Ref: paddle wheel.

8. a flipper or limb of a penguin, turtle, whale, etc.

   Category: Zoology

9. an act of paddling.

10. (v.i.)to propel or travel in a canoe or the like by using a paddle.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

11. (v.t.)to propel with a paddle.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

12. to spank with or as if with a paddle.

13. to stir, mix, or beat with or as if with a paddle.

14. to hit (a ball) with a paddle.

Origin of paddle:

1400–50; late ME padell implement for cleaning a plowshare, of uncert. origin

pad′dler(n.)

pad•dleˈpæd l(v.i.)-dled, -dling.

1. to move the feet or hands in water.

Origin of paddle:

1520–30; orig. uncert.

pad′dler(n.)