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1. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

2. 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. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

4. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.

5. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

6. A paddle- shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

7. A paddle- shaped implement for string or mixing.

8. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - also called clough.

9. See staff ( b), below.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample.