paddle

v. row, push a vessel through the water by paddling; splash and play in shallow water; spank (Slang); swat with a paddle (i.e. a ping-pong ball)

n. oar; ping-pong racquet; any elongated flat-ended implement used for various actions (i.e. stirring, swatting, spanking); act of rowing

A paddle is a tool used for pushing against liquids, either as a form of propulsion in a boat or as an implement for mixing.
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Noun
1. small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
(hypernym) bat
(hyponym) table-tennis racquet, table-tennis bat, pingpong paddle
2. a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
(hypernym) blade, vane
(part-holonym) millwheel
3. an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
(hypernym) instrument of punishment
(derivation) spank, larrup
4. a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
(synonym) boat paddle
(hypernym) oar
Verb
1. propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe"
(hypernym) boat
(hyponym) feather, square
(derivation) boat paddle
(classification) sport, athletics
2. play in or as if in water, as of small children
(synonym) dabble, splash around
(hypernym) play
3. swim like a dog in shallow water
(hypernym) swim
(classification) water sport, aquatics
4. walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"
(synonym) toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, waddle
(hypernym) walk
5. give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
(synonym) spank, larrup
(hypernym) beat, beat up, work over
6. stir with a paddle
(hypernym) stir

v. paddle, row, paddle a canoe

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

(v. t.)
To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
  

(v. t.)
To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
  

(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. 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.)
See Paddle staff (b), below.
  

(v. i.)
One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
  

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

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

(v. i.)
A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
  

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