Paddle

Webster's Dictionary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(12): ( 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.

King James Dictionary

Pad'Dle, L pes,pedis,the foot, and this is allied to Gr., to tread.

1. To row to beat the water, as with oars. 2. To play in the water with the hands, as children or with the feet, as fowls or other animals. 3. To finger.

PAD'DLE, To propel by an oar or paddle.

PAD'DLE, n. In L. batillus is a paddle-staff in Gr. a pole.

1. An oar, but not a large oar. It is now applied to a sort of short oar used in propelling and steering canoes and boats. 2. The blade or the broad part of an oar or weapon.

Thou shalt have a paddle on thy weapon.  Deuteronomy 23

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

PADDLE occurs only in   Deuteronomy 23:13 , where it is used of a wooden tool for digging, a spade. In earlier English a small spade used for cleaning the plough-share was called a ‘paddle,’ which explains the choice of this word in the Geneva Bible, whence it reached AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] .

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Lit. 'a pin or nail'; probably a small spade.   Deuteronomy 23:13 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Deuteronomy 23:13

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( יָתֵד , Yathed' a Pin [as often rendered], especially a Tent-Pin,  Judges 4:21; Sept. Πάσσαλος ; Vulg. Passillus ) , the implement required by the Mosaic law to be carried by Jews for the purpose of covering their ordure with earth ( Deuteronomy 23:13), evidently a common stake or peg of wood, sufficient to scratch the ground with.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pad ´' 50 ( יתד , yāthēdh ):   Deuteronomy 23:13 (Hebrew 14), the Revised Version margin "shovel."