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Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Wheelhouse :: Wheelhouse (n.) A paddle box. See under Paddle.

Sea Turtle :: Sea turtle () Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas..

Wheeler :: Wheeler (n.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.

Padder :: Padder (n.) One who, or that which, paddles..

Spaddle :: Spaddle (n.) A little spade.

Kayak :: Kayak (n.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes..

Paddlewood :: Paddlewood (n.) The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks..

Backwater :: Backwater (n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision..

Stern-wheeler :: Stern-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer..

Boat :: Boat (n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail..

Rata :: Rata (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs..

Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles..

Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle..

Pinnigrade :: Pinnigrade (n.) An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles..

Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat..

Paddlefish :: Paddlefish (n.) 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..

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