paddle
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Is paddle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.countabledateduncountable
2. (British) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.Britishcountableuncountable
3. (table tennis) A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.Examples: "(UK)"Synonyms: racket, batcountableuncountable
4. (slang) A person's hand.countableslanguncountable
5. (medicine) A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.Examples: "A large ( 13 x 25 cm ) paddle of skin was used to cover a large wound following a temporal bone resection."; "About 10% of perforators to the skin paddle of the flap are septocutaneous blood vessels that travel though the intermuscular septum that separates the rectus femoris muscle from the vastus lateralis muscle."countableuncountable
6. (sports, uncountable) Alternative form of padel.alt-ofalternativeuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.Examples: "as the Men were Paddling for their Lives"; "while paddling ducks the standing lake desire"; "Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe[…]"transitive
2. (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.intransitive
3. (transitive) To spank with a paddle.Examples: "Do you think we'll get paddled? They can't paddle me! I'm a girl!!"transitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.Britishintransitive
2. (intransitive) To dog paddle in water.intransitive
3. (intransitive) To toddle.Examples: "[…] little feet paddling round and about a man's bed and following wherever he went."intransitive
4. (archaic, intransitive) To toy or caress using hands or fingers.archaicintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary