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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 See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

DICTIONARY

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 See also:

early as 1407. The See also:

TERM

term " paddle " has been applied to many See also:

OBJECTS

objects and implements resembling the oar in its broad-bladed end: e.g. a See also:

shovel used in mixing materials in See also:

glass-making, in See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-making, &c., and also to the See also:

FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect

float-boards in the paddle-See also:

wheel of a steamboat or the wheel of a water-See also:

mill.

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