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Noun paddle has 4 senses

paddle - small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
--₁ is a kind of bat
--₁ has particulars: table-tennis racquet, table-tennis bat, pingpong paddle
paddle - a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
--₂ is a kind of blade, vane
--₂ is a part of millwheel; paddlewheel, paddle wheel
Derived form: verb paddle₆
paddle - an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
--₃ is a kind of instrument of punishment

Derived form: verb paddle₅
paddle, boat paddle - a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
--₄ is a kind of oar

Derived form: verb paddle₁

Verb paddle has 6 senses

paddle - propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe"
--₁ is one way to boat

Derived forms: noun paddle₄, noun paddler₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
dabble, paddle, splash around - play in or as if in water, as of small children
--₂ is one way to play
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
paddle - swim like a dog in shallow water
--₃ is one way to swim
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle - walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"
--₄ is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children paddle to the playground
spank, paddle, larrup - give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
--₅ is one way to beat, beat up, work over

Derived form: noun paddle₃
Sample sentence:
They want to paddle the prisoners
paddle - stir with a paddle
--₆ is one way to stir

Derived form: noun paddle₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something