Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. 2. (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. 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. (n.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. 7. (n.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. 8. (n.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. 9. (n.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough. 10. (n.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. 11. (n.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing. 12. (v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PADDLE pad'-'-l (yathedh): Deuteronomy 23:13 (Hebrew 14), the Revised Version margin "shovel."

Multi-Version Concordance Paddle (1 Occurrence) Deuteronomy 23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you: (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)