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To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing
strokes. |
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To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle,
or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat,
etc. |
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To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. |
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To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles. |
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To pad; to tread upon; to trample. |
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An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a
fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. |
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The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is
made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. |
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One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference
of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. |
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A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let
off water; -- also called clough. |
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A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. |
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A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing. |
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See Paddle staff (b), below. |