Crossword clues for paddling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paddle \Pad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Paddling]
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To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. [Obsolescent]
To be paddling palms and pinching fingers.
--Shak. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]
To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; -- usually as a disciplinary punishment of children.
To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a paddle.
Wiktionary
n. A collective noun for ducks when they are on water. vb. (present participle of paddle English) (''all senses'')
Wikipedia
Paddling with regard to watercraft is the act of manually propelling a boat using a paddle. The paddle, which consists of one or two blades joined to a shaft, is also used to steer the vessel. The paddle is not connected to the boat (unlike in rowing where the oar is connected to the boat).
Usage examples of "paddling".
Then he moved the paddle in the air, in a vigorous paddling motion, his right arm doing most of the work.
He was facing away from her at the moment, paddling the canoe, but anytime he turned she caught him with a smile.
Now there was a perceptible current, and the paddling was harder, but still not difficult.
Colored Stone was in the front, guiding it, while he provided power paddling on the left rear.
They kept paddling, not hard, because Colored Stone had indicated that it was a full day's distance to her home.
Then they set off on the return trip, paddling down the river, and to the junction of rivers, and the next junction, and up the final river to the land of the Principal People.
So he followed the shore, keeping it on his left, paddling into the rising sun.
Whether they were in a lodge at night, or paddling in the canoe, or walking through marsh, Tzec always made him feel like a man ten winters younger.
They moved down the river, helped by the current, paddling as rapidly as they could.
After a while she removed her shawl, evidently growing hot from the exertion, and continued paddling with her upper section only lightly covered by her trailing black braids.
At dawn he was paddling furiously down the middle of the river, taking advantage of whatever current was then moving.
Reassured in mind and replenished in sinew, he resumed his night paddling down the great river, and next morning decided not to sleep through the day, for ahead lay the vast body of water which he had heard of as a child and which was now his target.
Accordingly, he mended rough spots on his canoe, dragged it into the creek, climbed in and started paddling eastward until he came to a huge, sprawling marsh whose tall grasses rose a uniform fifteen hands above the water.
The Indians stared at him stolidly, remained in position for perhaps half an hour, then smartly withdrew, paddling upstream to their village.
Some children saw him approaching, paddling as if fiends were at his back, and they shouted that Cudjo was returning.