0 past simple and past participle of paddle --
1 to push a pole with a wide end through the water in order to make a boat move --
2 to walk with no shoes or socks on through water that is not very deep, often at the edge of a beach, etc.: --
3 to swim by moving your feet and hands up and down --
It can also be poled or paddled, but is too wide for efficient paddling.
Initially the recon teams paddled to shore until later, outboard motors were added.
Until the middle 1950s inflatables were still rafts in civilian use, hand paddled but the outboard motor came into use in the early 1950s.
Individual competitors ran, paddled and skied to a distant finish line.
Once within striking distance of the harbour, the commandos took to folboats (folding canoes), and paddled into the docks under cover of night.
Whirligigs, which are closely related to weathervanes, most commonly represent a standing figure with paddled arms that flail in the wind.
I am quite sure that some of my colleagues paddled in this particular burn when they were much younger and saw many children lose their lives in it.
One of the hunters quietly paddled the punt until he was among his victims and then the other one blasted off with this diabolical instrument of death and destruction.
