Noun: paddle
| Singular | paddle |
| Plural | paddles |
Sample Sentences
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We had a nice paddle this morning.
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I managed one mighty paddle of 38km up the coast to Wicklow before the next bloody storm was due to hit. [2021, Jordan Wylie, The Power of the Paddle:]
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The paddle practically ousted the British cane for spankings in the independent US.
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(UK)
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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: […] [2019, Ted Bruning, The Bar Owners' Handbook, page 111:]
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A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow.
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A large ( 13 x 25 cm ) paddle of skin was used to cover a large wound following a temporal bone resection. [2009, Berish Strauch, Luis O. Vasconez, M.d., Elizabeth J. Hall-Findlay, Grabb's Encyclopedia of Flaps - Volume 1, page 373:]
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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. [2012, Mark L. Urken, Mack L. Cheney, Keith E. Blackwell, Atlas of Regional and Free Flaps for Head and Neck Reconstruction, page 235:]
Nouns inflected like paddle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
2. Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδόν (pēdón, “the blade of an oar; an oar”). See: Middle English Nouns '
padell', Latin Nouns '
patella', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πηδάλιον'.
Verbs referencing "paddle"
Dutch Nouns
peddel, Danish Nouns
paddel, Swedish Nouns
paddel, Catalan Nouns
pàdel.