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Synonyms for paddling
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pad-l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæd l |
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Définition of paddling
Origin :- c.1400, padell "small spade," from Medieval Latin padela, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin patella "small pan, little dish, plate," diminutive of patina (see pan (n.)).
- Meaning "short oar with a wide blade" is from 1620s. As an instrument used for beating clothes (and slaves, and schoolboys), it is recorded from 1828, American English. Paddle-ball attested from 1935.
- verb propel with arms or tool
- Hear them swearing at this moment, boys of five, paddling in the water there!
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- If it's all a fake of his, how came you to have heard of Braybridge paddling the canoe back for her?
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- Her cheery partner was paddling his rosy brows with a fine handkerchief.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- His mind automatically reacted in the direction of paddling.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- I declared, 'and he has set those fellows to paddling around the island.
- Extract from : « Against Odds » by Lawrence L. Lynch
- He must have though me bereft of my senses to be paddling about at that hour of the night.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various
- He closed his eyes and listened, paddling softly, with set teeth.
- Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
- Then they took to flight, paddling as if their very lives depended on it.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell Down South » by Burt L. Standish
- So they followed him,—he swimming and they paddling, until night came.
- Extract from : « Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian » by Anonymous
- Soon they were well out to sea, paddling rapidly for the west.
- Extract from : « An American Robinson Crusoe » by Samuel. B. Allison
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