(v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
(v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
(v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
(v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
(v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
(v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
(v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
(v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.
Example Sentences:
(1) These people would be out of their depth in a paddling pool, and couldn’t be more unfit to run a modern political party.
(2) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(3) We have found it to be efficacious in taking a proximal skin paddle, which decreases donor site morbidity and allows for a long vascular pedicle.
(4) Also, one or two skin paddles for cover and lining flaps are carried either by the cutaneous scapular and parascapular branches of the circumflex scapular vessels or by surgically split segments of the latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap.
(5) Following the recent announcement from Naoto Kan, the prime minister, that Japan would "start from scratch" with regard to future nuclear power expansion, we can be sure that there is plenty of paddling in Tokyo.
(6) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(7) Although there was partial epithelial loss of the skin "paddle" in 7 cases, in each case the surviving dermis became resurfaced with epithelium.
(8) On each trial subjects were instructed either to produce the syllable "pa" or not respond when they detected movement of a small paddle held between the lips.
(9) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
(10) Uricult dip-slide paddles provide an inexpensive, efficient way to screen urine.
(11) We address the chief safety issues in helicopter defibrillation by providing measurements of the transient leakage current resulting from contact with a paddle and tested in-flight electronic interference and survey the defibrillation experience of helicopter programs.
(12) Paddle past women washing their colourful saris in the waterways, farmers herding their swimming ducks to pastures new and see wildlife that would otherwise have been scared away, before taking a dip to cool off.
(13) A technique of intraabdominal paddle placement for internal countershock has been used to successfully manage this complication.
(14) Each of these bones is fully differentiated by Gosner stage 31 (hindlimb in paddle stage) during premetamorphosis.
(15) SWANSEA CITY Accounts for the year to 31 May 2014 Ownership Martin Morgan, 23.7%; Brian Katzen, 21.1%; Swansea City Supporters Society Limited (supporters trust) 21.1%; chairman Huw Jenkins 13.2%; Robert Davies 10.5% Turnover 13th highest, £99m (up from £67m in 2013) Match income £9m Media £81m Commercial and other £9m Wage bill Joint 14th highest, £63m (up from £49m in 2013) Wages as proportion of turnover 64% Profit before tax £1m (down from £21m in 2013) Net debt Nil; £2m cash in the bank Interest payable £0.015m Highest-paid director Huw Jenkins, £550,000 State they’re in The Swans’ epic paddle from bottom division and insolvency to Premier League and new stadium owned by a consortium of fan-businessmen, including 20% held by the supporters trust, was committed to documentary with A Jack to a King.
(16) The cadaver injections were evaluated to determine the size and shape of the skin island used to reconstruct defects of the head, neck, and upper trunk with an extended skin paddle off the pectoralis major muscle.
(17) There was septal damage in the heart of one paddle dog.
(18) Both DZP and PTZ elevated paddling and wall progression, but only PTZ elevated head and body tremor scores.
(19) The emulsions were prepared by paddle mixing as a method of low-shear emulsification.
(20) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
Spank
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
(n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap.
(v. i.) To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eventually he lays it back invitingly to Iniesta, 25 yards out, and he spanks it high and wide.
(2) Compared with the control group, both treatment groups of mothers reported significantly fewer child behavior problems, reduced stress levels, and less use of spanking.
(3) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
(4) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
(5) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
(6) The tickets are only €10, yet the first prize is a brand spanking new Fiat Panda 4x4 – with all optional extras.
(7) Then, after a single, a full toss is offered to Sangakkara, and he spanks it through cover and stalks off for a sarnie.
(8) More disjointedness like that after kick-off and they'll get their hids spanked.
(9) The venue looked good and made Labour's point, a spanking new hospital standing as visual proof of Labour's investment in public services (a point only slightly undermined by the sight of an audience in coats and woolly hats, apparently because the central heating in the building was not yet working).
(10) He had been accused of abusing eight youngsters at Cambridge Hostel in the town by spanking and touching them.
(11) Fresh belief flowed through Arsenal, even more so two minutes later when Ramsey scored with a spanking volley.
(12) Smith was secretary of the Rochdale Hostel for Boys Association, where he was accused of abusing vulnerable youngsters by spanking and touching them.
(13) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
(14) DOWN UNDER He has just been given a lucrative new job where progress simply means doing better than David Moyes and last week he led his national team to a momentous spanking of the side reputed to be one of the best in history, but Louis van Gaal is not a happy man.
(15) My mother, out of patience, spanked him, but regretted it later.
(16) "Honey, get into that bath before I spank you," Bond warns.)
(17) And just as Mikey-Michael is reckoning that Eranga has yapped himself out of focus, he hammers down one that's absurdly short and outside leg, so Ali gets right on top of it and spanks a swivel-pull around the corner for four.
(18) However, controlling for positive communication or for a parent-oriented motivation for spanking eliminated the negative effects of spanking, suggesting that the negative effects reflected use of spanking as a replacement for positive communication with the child.
(19) Abusive fathers spanked their children significantly more often than the nonabusive fathers, and abusive mothers had the highest frequency of critical statements directed at their children.
(20) Another opening-day bust came from the arm of the Phillies' Cole Hamels, who marked his entry into the upper echelon of pitching salaries (six years for $144m) by getting spanked by Atlanta down at Turner Field.