paddle

paddle is a 6-letter English word with 22 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
2. intransitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
4. transitive verb. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
5. transitive verb. To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
6. intransitive verb. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
7. intransitive verb. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
8. intransitive verb. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
9. intransitive verb. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
10. intransitive verb. A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
11. intransitive verb. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
12. intransitive verb. See Paddle staff (b), below.
13. noun. a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
14. noun. an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
15. noun. a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
16. noun. small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
17. verb. stir with a paddle
18. verb. give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

    Synonyms: larrup, spank

19. verb. walk unsteadily

    "small children toddle"

    Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle

20. verb. propel with a paddle

    "paddle your own canoe"

21. verb. swim like a dog in shallow water
22. verb. play in or as if in water, as of small children

    Synonyms: dabble

Synonyms

larrup, spank, coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle, dabble

Common word forms

paddled, paddler, paddles, paddling

Words from these letters

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