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Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.

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

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

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

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

Side-wheel :: Side-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer..

Spoon-billed :: Spoonbill (n.) The paddlefish.

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats..

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..

Paddlecock :: Paddlecock (n.) The lumpfish.

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

Cetacea :: Cetacea (n. pl.) An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:.

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle..

Mosasauria :: Mosasauria (n. pl.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria..

Ctenophora :: Ctenophora (n. pl.) A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs..

Catamaran :: Catamaran (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations..

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..

Paddled :: Paddled (imp. & p. p.) of Paddl.

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below..

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..

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