English Dictionary

paddle

/ˈpædl̩/

noun

A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats. / A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.

I grabbed the paddle and started rowing.

意味（1）

A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats.

意味（2）

A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.

意味（3）

The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.

I managed one mighty paddle of 38km up the coast to Wicklow before the next bloody storm was due to hit.

意味（4）

A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.

意味（5）

A paddlewheel.

意味（6）

A blade of a waterwheel.

意味（7）

(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.

意味（8）

(Britain) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.

意味（9）

A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.

意味（10）

A broad, flat spanking implement.

The paddle practically ousted the British cane for spankings in the independent US.

意味（11）

(ping pong) A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.

(UK)

意味（12）

A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.

And it really is a paddle, too, with a blade big enough to hold several sampling glasses of different beers (known for some reason as a 'flight') for customers to try. Beer paddles have become very popular in American craft beer bars: […]

意味（13）

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

A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow.

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In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.

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A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.

意味（16）

(slang) A person's hand.

意味（17）

(medicine) A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.

A large ( 13 x 25 cm ) paddle of skin was used to cover a large wound following a temporal bone resection.

意味（18）

(sports, uncountable) Alternative form of padel