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 Pad·dle, n.
 1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
 2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle, such as that used in table tennis.
    Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon.   --Deut. xxiii. 13.
 3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
 4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
 5. Zool. A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
 6. A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing.
 7.  See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov. Eng.]
 Paddle beam Shipbuilding, one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel.
 Paddle board. See Paddle, n., 3.
 Paddle shaft, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
 Paddle staff. (a) A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also plow staff. [Prov. Eng.]
 Paddle steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller.
 Paddle wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length.
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 paddle wheel
      n : a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in
          order to propel a boat [syn: paddlewheel]