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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pad•dle1 /ˈpædəl/USA pronunciation n., v., -dled, -dling. n. [countable] - Nautical, Naval Termsa short, flat-bladed oar for moving and steering a canoe or small boat.
- any similar item used for mixing, stirring, or beating.
- a racket with a short handle and a wide, rounded front surface, used in table tennis, etc.
- Nautical, Naval Termsa blade or part of a wheel moved by the action of water rushing past it, or by an engine that pushes it through water:a paddle wheel boat.
v. - Nautical, Naval Termsto (cause to) move in a canoe or the like by using a paddle: [no object]paddled across the lake in the canoe.[~ + object]He paddled the canoe across the lake.
- to spank with or as if with a paddle:[~ + object]threatened to paddle the naughty child.
pad•dler, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pad•dle1 (pad′l),USA pronunciation n., v., -dled, -dling. n. - Naval Terms, 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.
- any of various similar implements used for mixing, stirring, or beating.
- Sport, 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.
- such an implement or a similarly shaped makeshift one, used to spank or beat someone.
- Anthropology, an implement used for beating garments while washing them in running water, as in a stream.
- Naval Terms, Also called float, floatboard. a blade of a paddle wheel.
- Naval Terms, See paddle wheel.
- Naval Terms, any of the blades by which a water wheel is turned.
- Zoologya flipper or limb of a penguin, turtle, whale, etc.
- an act of paddling.
- British TermsAlso, pattle. Brit. Dial. a small spade with a long handle, used to dig up thistles.
- Civil Engineering(in a gate of a lock or sluice) a panel that slides to permit the passage of water.
v.i. - Naval Terms, to propel or travel in a canoe or the like by using a paddle.
- Naval Terms, to row lightly or gently with oars.
- Naval Terms, to move by means of paddle wheels, as a steamer.
v.t. - to propel with a paddle: to paddle a canoe.
- to spank or beat with or as with a paddle.
- to stir, mix, or beat with or as with a paddle
- to convey by paddling, as a canoe.
- Sportto hit (a table-tennis ball or the like) with a paddle.
- Idioms paddle one's own canoe. See canoe (def. 3).
- late Middle English padell (noun, nominal) 1375–1425
pad•dle2 (pad′l),USA pronunciation v.i., -dled, -dling. - to move the feet or hands playfully in shallow water;
dabble. - to toy with the fingers.
- to toddle.
- origin, originally uncertain 1520–30
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