What does "paddle" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak.
2. 3.To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
3. 4.To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]
4. 5.An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
5. 6.The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. Deut. xxiii.
6. 7.3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
7. 8.A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - - also called clough.
8. 9.(Zoöl.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
9. 10.A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
10. 11.Etym: [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.] See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov. Eng.] Paddle beam (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel. -- Paddle board. See Paddle, n., 3. -- Paddle box, the structure inclosing the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. -- Paddle shaft, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. -- Paddle staff. (a) A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also plow staff. [Prov. Eng.] -- Paddle steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. -- Paddle wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length.