Paddle

['pæd(ə)l] or ['pædl]

解释:

(noun.) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat.

(noun.) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board.

(noun.) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel.

(noun.) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games.

(verb.) stir with a paddle.

(verb.) propel with a paddle; 'paddle your own canoe'.

(verb.) swim like a dog in shallow water.

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解释:

(v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

(v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

(v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.

(v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

(v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.

(v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

(v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.

(v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

(v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.

(v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.

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解释:

v.i. to dabble in water with the hands or the feet: to touch or toy with the fingers: to beat the water as with the feet: to row: to move in the water as a duck does: (slang) to make off.—v.t. to move by means of an oar or paddle: to finger toy with.—n. a short broad spoon-shaped oar used for moving canoes: the blade of an oar: one of the boards at the circumference of a paddle-wheel.—ns. Padd′le-beam one of the large timbers at the side of a paddle-wheel; Padd′le-board one of the floats on the circumference of a paddle-wheel; Padd′le-box a wooden box covering the upper part of the paddle-wheel of a steamer; Padd′ler one who paddles; Padd′le-shaft the axle on which the paddle-wheels of a steamer turn; Padd′le-wheel the wheel of a steam-vessel which by turning in the water causes it to move forward; Padd′le-wood the light strong wood of a Guiana tree of the dogbane family.

n. (B.) a little spade.—n. Padd′le-staff a spade for clearing a ploughshare.

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