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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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