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  • English Word Paddle Definition One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
  • English Word Paddle Definition A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
  • English Word Paddle Definition A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
  • English Word Paddle Definition A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
  • English Word Paddle Definition See Paddle staff (b), below.
  • English Word Paddlecock Definition The lumpfish.
  • English Word Paddled Definition of Paddle
  • English Word Paddlefish Definition A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.
  • English Word Paddlewood Definition The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.
  • English Word Paddling Definition of Paddle
  • English Word Paddock Definition A small inclosure or park for sporting.
  • English Word Paddock Definition A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
  • English Word Paddock Definition A toad or frog.
  • English Word Paddy Definition A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.
  • English Word Paddy Definition Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.
  • English Word Paddy Definition Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
  • English Word Padelion Definition A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.
  • English Word Padella Definition A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.
  • English Word Pademelon Definition See Wallaby.
  • English Word Padesoy Definition See Paduasoy.
  • English Word Padge Definition The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl.
  • English Word Padishah Definition Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.
  • English Word Padlock Definition A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
  • English Word Padlock Definition Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
  • English Word Padlock Definition To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.
  • English Word Padlocked Definition of Padlock
  • English Word Padlocking Definition of Padlock
  • English Word Padnag Definition An ambling nag.
  • English Word Padow Definition A paddock, or toad.
  • English Word Padrone Definition A patron; a protector.