Small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games.

Roget 267: navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship etc. 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron.    natation^†, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail.    aerostation^†, aerostatics^†, aeronautics; balloonery^†; balloon etc. 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation^†; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting.    voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus^†; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway.    mariner etc. 269.    flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift.    ... show more

Roget 633: machinery, mechanism, engineering.    instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine.    gear; tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances; plant, materiel; harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments; barde^†; equipment, equipmentage^†; appointments, furniture, upholstery; chattels; paraphernalia etc. (belongings) 780.    mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike^†, gavelock^†, jemmy^†, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan etc. (lift) 307; wheel etc. (rotation) 312; inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald^†, heddle^†, jenny, parbuckle^†, sprag^†, water wheel.    handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.    hammer etc. (impulse) 276; edge tool etc. (cut) 253; borer etc. 262; vice, teeth, etc. (hold) 781; nail, rope etc. (join) 45; peg etc. (hang) 214; support etc. 215; spoon etc. (vehicle) 272; arms etc. 727; oar etc. (navigation) 267; cardiograph, recapper^†, snowplow, tenpenny^†, votograph^†.    ... show more

Dutch: pootjebaden, schoep

A blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel.

Dutch: gepeddel, scheprad

An instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board.

A short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat.

synonym: boat paddle.

Dutch: paddel, bat, batje

Propel with a paddle.

Roget 267: sail; put to sea etc. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters.    navigate, warp, luff^†, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.    ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.    swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer [Fr.], dive, wade.    fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.    ... show more

Dutch: roeien

Play in or as if in water, as of small children.

synonyms: dabble, splash around.

Swim like a dog in shallow water.

Walk unsteadily.

synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle.

Roget 266: travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk etc. n.; have a run; take the air.    flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate^†; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize^†, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.    walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.    take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk^†, frisk, caracoler^†, caracole; gallop etc. (move quickly) 274.    [start riding] embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway.    peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.    go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.    ... show more

Dutch: trippelen

Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking.

synonyms: larrup, spank.

Dutch: voor de billen, billenkoek

Stir with a paddle.