1 [C] a short pole with a flat wide part at one or both ends, that you hold in both hands and use for moving a small boat, especially a CANOE, through water
compareOAR
2 [C] a tool or part of a machine shaped like a paddle, especially one used for mixing food
3 (a paddle) [sing.] (BrE) an act or period of walking in shallow water with bare feet:
Let's go for a paddle.
seealsoDOG-PADDLE
4 (AmE) a bat used for playing TABLETENNIS
5 (AmE) a piece of wood with a handle, used for hitting children as a punishment
IDIOMS see CREEK
Part of speech: verb
1 [usually +adv./prep.] to move a small boat through water using a paddle:
[V] We paddled downstream for about a mile. * [VN] We paddled the canoe along the coast.
2 (BrE) (AmE wade) [V] to walk or stand with bare feet in shallow water in the sea, a lake, etc:
The children have gone paddling.
3 [V] to swim with short movements of your hands or feet up and down
4 [VN] (AmE) to hit a child with a flat piece of wood as a punishment
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for paddle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is paddle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, paddle is tagged as noun.
Does paddle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — paddle appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
