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paddle
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)
- A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
- A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
- Time spent on paddling.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- A paddlewheel.
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- (video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
- (Britain) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
- A bat-shaped spanking implement.
- A ping pong bat.
- Synonym: racket
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- A group of inerts.
- A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode.
- (slang) hand
- (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)
- (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 […]
- (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- (transitive) To spank with a paddle.
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- 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)
- (intransitive, Britain) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- To toddle.
- (archaic, intransitive) To toy or caress using hands or fingers.
Translations
Further reading
- paddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
Verb
paddle
- inflection of paddeln:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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straggle
English
Etymology
From Middle English straglen, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?æ?l?/
- Rhymes: -æ??l
- Hyphenation: strag?gle
Verb
straggle (third-person singular simple present straggles, present participle straggling, simple past and past participle straggled)
- To stray from the road, course or line of march.
- He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
- To wander about; ramble.
- To spread at irregular intervals.
- To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
- Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
- To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
- They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.
Derived terms
- (noun) straggler
- (adverb) stragglingly
Translations
Noun
straggle (plural straggles)
- An irregular, spread-out group.
- An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.
- 1858 Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia
- Nevertheless there is a straggle of pungent sense in it, — like the outskirts of lightning, seen in that dismally wet weather, which the Royal Party had.
- 1858 Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia
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