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A pole manoeuvred round stern of hired boat
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pedalo
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ten minutes walk from the harbour are shingle beaches with safe swimming, pedalo hire and a windsurfing school for the energetic.
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A pedalo (British English) or paddle boat (U.S., Canadian, and Australian English) is a small human-powered watercraft propelled by the action of pedals turning a paddle wheel . The paddle wheel of a pedalo is a smaller version of that used by a paddle ...
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n. (context nautical English) A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles; used for recreation
Usage examples of pedalo.
There were people on Jet Skis and old Everglades swamp buggies and even battered tourist pedalos, many of them laden with stuff.
I resented the topless sunbathers, the palm trees and aloe vera plants, the shingly beaches and the exquisite blue sea, the casino and the hotels, the villas on the hills, the skyscraper apartment blocks, the suntanned youths on motorbikes, the wind surfers and paraskiers, the speedboats, pedalos and beach huts.
Imagine sharing this space with 1,600 other similarly dashing craft, most of them in the control of some pot-bellied urban halfwit with next to no experience of powered craft, plus all the floating jetsam of rowboats, kayaks, pedalos and the like and it is a wonder that there aren't bodies all over the water.