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Encyclopedia Britannica



PADDLE

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 443 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
PADDLE . (1) A verb, meaning to splash, dabble or
play
  about in water with the feet or hands. (2) A
species
  of oar, with a broad
flat
  blade and short handle, used without a
rowlock
  for propelling canoes or other lightly-built craft (see
CANOE
 ). (3) A small spade-like implement, apparently first used to clear a ploughshare from clods of earth. The verb seems to be a frequentative form of "pad," to walk, cognate with "path," or of "pat," to strike gently, an onomatopoeic word; it may have been influenced by the Fr. patrouiller, in much the same sense. The verb may have given rise to "paddle," an oar, an easy transitionin sense; but the New
English
  Dictionary identifies this with the word for a small spade, which occurs earlier than the verb, and seems to have no connexion in sense with it. The implement was known in the 17th and 18th centuries also as " spaddle," a diminutive of " spade," but " paddle " occurs in this sense as early as 1407. The
term
  " paddle " has been applied to many objects and implements resembling the oar in its broad-bladed end: e.g. a shovel used in mixing materials in glass-making, in brick-making, &c., and also to the
float
 -boards in the paddle-
wheel
  of a steamboat or the
wheel
  of a water-mill.


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