different between paddle vs scull

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pædl?/, /?pæ.d?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?p?æ.???]
• Rhymes: -æd?l

Etymology 1

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek ???????? (p?dálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from ????? (p?dós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

Alternative forms

• paidle (obsolete)

Noun

paddle (plural paddles)

1. A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
2. A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
3. Time spent on paddling.

4. A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
5. A paddlewheel.
6. A blade of a waterwheel.
7. (video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
8. (Britain) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
9. A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
10. A bat-shaped spanking implement.

11. A ping pong bat.

    Synonym: racket

12. A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.

13. In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
14. A group of inerts.
15. A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode.
16. (slang) hand
17. (sports) Alternative form of padel

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: paddel, padle

Translations

See also

• oar

Verb

paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)

1. (transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
   • while paddling ducks the standing lake desire

   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX

     Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe […]

2. (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
3. (transitive) To spank with a paddle.
4. To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
5. To tread upon; to trample.

Translations

Etymology 2

Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln (“to tramp about”), frequentative form of padjen (“to tramp, run in short steps”), from pad (also in Dutch dialects). Compare also Saterland Frisian paddelje (“to paddle”).

Verb

paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)

1. (intransitive, Britain) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
2. To toddle.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To toy or caress using hands or fingers.

Translations

Further reading

• paddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Verb

paddle

1. inflection of paddeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?l, IPA^(key): /sk?l/
• Homophone: skull
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English sculle (“a type of oar”), of uncertain origin, possibly from North Germanic, from Old Norse skola (“to rinse, wash”).

Noun

scull (plural sculls)

1. A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
2. One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
3. A small rowing boat, for one person.
4. A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.

Derived terms

• (racing boat): double scull, quad scull, single scull

Translations

Verb

scull (third-person singular simple present sculls, present participle sculling, simple past and past participle sculled)

1. To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.

2. To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.

Derived terms

• sculler

Translations

Etymology 2

See skull. The verb sense may derive from Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål.

Noun

scull (plural sculls)

1. Obsolete form of skull.
2. A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11.

     The scull is a head piece, without visor or bever, resembling a bowl or bason, such as was worn by our cavalry, within twenty or thirty years.

Verb

scull (third-person singular simple present sculls, present participle sculling, simple past and past participle sculled)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing.
   • 2005, Jane Egginton, Working and Living Australia, The Sunday Times, Cadogan Guides, UK, page 59,

     In 1954, Bob Hawke made the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds.

   • 2005, Stefan Laszczuk, The Goddamn Bus of Happiness, page 75,

     That way you get your opponent so gassed up from sculling beer that all he can think about is trying to burp without spewing.

   • 2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day, 14th Edition, page 133,

     For a livelier scene, head here on Friday or Saturday night, when mass beer-sculling (chugging) and yodeling are accompanied by a brass band and costumed waitresses ferrying foaming beer steins about the atmospheric, cellarlike space.

   • 2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 136,

     After a three-day Torquay-to-Sydney road trip with his hosts, Noll rejoined his American temmates, unshaven and stinking of alcohol, the Team USA badge ripped from his warm-up jacket and replaced by an Aussie-made patch of Disney character Gladstone Gander sculling a frothy mug of beer.

Synonyms

• chug

Translations

Etymology 3

See school.

Noun

scull (plural sculls)

1. (obsolete) A shoal of fish.

Etymology 4

See skua

Noun

scull (plural sculls)

1. The skua gull.

References

Anagrams

• Culls, culls