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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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PAD'DLE, v.i. [L. pes,pedis,the foot, and this is allied to Gr., to tread.]
PAD'DLE, v.t. To propel by an oar or paddle.
PAD'DLE, n. [In L. batillus is a paddle-staff; in Gr. a pole.]
To use the hands or fingers in
toying; to make caressing strokes.
[Obs.] Shak. 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.
As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay. To pat or stroke
amorously, or gently.
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.] An implement with a
broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and
steering canoes and boats.
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. 13. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the
circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
A small gate in sluices or lock gates to
admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
A paddle-shaped foot,
as of the sea turtle.
A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or
mixing.
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,
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