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

2. (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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. (n.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

11. (n.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.

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

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