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Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
The paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
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n.
A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.
v. i.
One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
v. i.
See Paddle staff (b), below.
a.
Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.
v. i.
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
v. i.
To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.
n.
A paddle box. See under Paddle.
n.
One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.
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v. t.
To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
n.
That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.
v. i.
A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
n.
The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
n.
The paddlefish.
v. i.
A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
a.
Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.
n.
The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
n. pl.
A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth.
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