1. paddle - Noun
2. paddle - Verb
To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
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.
To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
See Paddle staff (b), below.
Source: Webster's dictionarySix days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks. Aldo Leopold
Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air Their hearts have not grown old. William Butler Yeats
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle. Dr. Seuss
No man can paddle two canoes at the same time. Bantu Proverb
Paddle together, bail, paddle; paddle, bail; paddle towards the land. American Proverb
Dip your paddle in and join the effort. Hawaiian Proverb