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propulsion of the vessel. 2. A wheel fitted 
with paddles, used to aid, by its revolution, in 
b i certain washing opera- 
tions, as in leather-man- 
ufacture, etc Cycloldal 
paddle-wheel, a paddle- 
wheel having narrow floats 
arranged longitudinally one 
Paddle-crab (Callintetes hastattts). 
oval enlargement at the end of a line or band 
resembling the handle of a spoon, 
paddle-fish (pad'1-fish), n. The spoon-billed 
sturgeon, Polyodon (or Spatnlaria) spatula, a 
ganoid fish of the family Polyodontidie (orSpatu- 
lariidee), attaining a length of five or six feet, 
A. Transverse Section of American Feathering Paddle-wheel. B. 
Quarter-elevation of Feathering Paddle-wheel, being the general 
form used for American fast steamers, with light frame and extra rim 
to protect buckets, a, gunwale-bearing ; b, shaft ; f, wheel-flanges ; 
d, paddle-eccentric; f, paddle-eccentric bearing;/, radius-bar; g, 
runs; A, braces; i, rocker-arm ;j, bracket; *, bucket; /.water-level. 
Paddle-fish (Polyotton spatula'). A, under view ; B, side view. 
abundant in the Mississippi river and its larger 
tributaries. It has a very long spatulate or paddle-like 
projection of the snout ; the body resembles a sturgeon's, 
but is scaleless ; 15 or 20 fulcra are appressed to the upper 
margin of the caudal fin. Also called spoon-billed cat and 
duek-bUled cat, in reference to the salient feature of the 
snout and some fancied resemblance to a cattish. 
paddle-hole (pad'1-hol), . One of the passages 
which conduct the water from the upper pond 
of a canal into the lock, and out of the lock to 
the lower pond. See paddle^, n. , 5. Also called 
clouqh-arch. 
paddler (pad'ler), n. One who or that which 
paddles or uses a paddle ; hence, one who acts 
in a purposeless way, as a child paddles in the 
water. 
He may make a paddler i 1 the world, 
From hand to mouth, but never a brave swimmer. 
Beau, and Fl, Wit at Several Weapous, i. 1. 
paddle-row (pad'l-ro), . The paddle or cteno- 
phore of a ctenophoran. 
paddle-shaft (pad'l-shaft), n. The shaft by 
means of which the paddle-wheels of a steam- 
boat are driven. 
paddle-sloop (pad'1-slop), n. A sloop of war 
propelled by paddle-wheels. 
In 1860 it was the author's chance again to meet Gari- 
baldi, for he was in command of the paddle-sloop Argus, 
despatched to Sicily to look after British interests when 
the famous one thousand (really 800) landed at Marsala. 
The Academy, No. 899, p. 52. 
paddle-staff (pad'l-staf),w, 1. A staff headed 
with a broad iron, used by mole-catchers. 2. 
A spade with a long handle, used by plow- 
men to clear the share of earth, stubble, etc. ; 
a paddle. 
paddle-tumbler (pad'l-tum"bler), . In some 
operations of leather-manufacture, a water- 
tank in which skins are washed while kept in 
constant motion by means of a paddle-wheel. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 373. 
paddle-wheel (pad'1-hwel), n. 1. A wheel 
(generally one of two placed at the sides of a 
European or English Feathering Paddle-wheel. 
wheel-flanges ; , radius-bars ; c, bucket ; d, wheel-arm : f, 
" " 
Common Paddle-wheel. 
a, shaft ; b, i', rims ; <-, <-, paddles ; it, .i, urins. 
steam-vessel) provided with boards or floats on 
its circumference, and driven by steam, for the 
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enter the water with greater effect to the feathering-wheel. 
above another, in a slightly retreating order, the better 
to distribute the pressure, and to lessen the concussion 
against the water. Feathering paddle-wheel. Same 
as featliering-wheel. 
paddlewood (pad'1-wud), n. A tree of Guiana, 
As])idosperma cxcelsmn of the Apocynacete. it 
has a singular fluted or buttressed trunk, from the pro- 
jecting radii of which the Indians make paddles. The 
hard elastic wood also affords rollers for cotton-gins. 
The seeds are beautifully winged. Also called wheel-tree, 
from the form of a section of the trunk. 
paddling-crab (pad'ling-krab), n. Same as 
paddle-crab. 
paddock 1 (pad'ok), . [Early mod. E. also 
padock, < ME. paddok; < pad 2 + dim. -ock.} 1. 
A toad or frog. [Obsolete or prov. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 
For who . . . 
Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib, 
Such dear concernings hide? 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 189. 
Here a little child I stand, 
Heaving up my either hand: 
Cold as paddocks though they be, 
Here I lift them up to thee. 
Eerrick, Another Grace for a Child. 
2. The tadpole-fish. [Local, Scotch.] 
paddock 2 (pad'ok), n. [A corruption ofparrock, 
prob. due in part to association with pad! : see 
parrocJc.} A small field or inclosure; especially, 
a small inclosure under pasture immediately 
adjoining a stable ; a small turfed inclosure in 
which animals, especially horses, are kept. 
Villas environed with parks, paddocla, [and] plantations. 
Evelyn. 
The prices of admission to the paddocks, the grand stand, 
and the various points of advantage throughout the 
grounds, are higher than on our racing tracks. 
T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. 15. 
paddock 2 (pad'ok), v. t. [< paddock, n. Cf. 
parrock, v.} To confine or inclose in or as in a 
paddock. 
Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had 
he been paddocked in a thinly-shaven vocabulary. 
Ijowell, Books and Libraries. 
paddock-cheeset (pad'ok-chez), . The aspara- 
gus. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
paddock-pipe (pad'ok-plp), n. One of various 
species of Equisetum, or horsetail ; also, Hip- 
puns vulgaris, the mare's-tail: so named from 
their hollow stems and fenny locality. 
paddock-rud (pad'ok-rud), n. The spawn of 
frogs. Halliwell. [Local, Eng.] 
paddock-stone (pad'ok-ston), n. Same as toad- 
stone. 
paddockstool (pad'ok-stol), w. [< ME. paddok- 
stole ; < paddock* + stool.'] A toadstool. 
padji 
Paddy 1 (pad'i), 11. ; pi. Paddies (-iz). [A dim. 
of Pat, abbr. of Patrick, < Ir. Padraic, a fre- 
quent Christian name in Ireland, after St. 
Patrick (< LL. Patricins), its tutelar saint: see 
PatV.} 1. An Irishman. [Slang.] 2. [I.e.] A 
sailors' name for the lesser sheathbill of Ker- 
guelen Island, Chionis minor. See sheathoill and 
Chionis. 3. [1. c.] The ruddy duck, Erisrna- 
tura mlrida. Also paddywhack. [North Caro- 
lina.] 4. [I.e.'] Same as paddywhack, 3. 
Paddy's watch. Same as paddywhack, 3. 
paddy 2 (pad'i), a. [Origin obscure.] Mean ; 
poor; contemptible; low in manners or char- 
acter. 
paddy 3 (pad'i), n. [Also padi; < Malay padi, 
rice.] Eice in the husk, whether in the field or 
gathered. [East Indies.] 
paddy-bird (pad'i-berd), n. The Java sparrow 
or ricebird, Munia orPadda oryziroru : so called 
from its frequenting paddy-fields. 
paddy-field (pad'i-feld), n. A rice-field ; afield 
in which rice is grown. [East Indies.] 
A strolling company of players will act on the threshing- 
floor beside the paddy-fields in the old primitive fashion. 
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, p. 38. 
paddy-melon (pad'i-mel'on), n. Same aspade- 
melon. 
paddy-pounder (pad^-poun^der), . In the 
East Indies, a machine for removing the husk 
from rice. 
The dried pulp is then removed by pounding in common 
paddy-pounders. Spans' Encyc. Mamif., I. 706. 
paddywhack (pad'i-hwak), n. [< Paddyi + 
whack, used with vague emphasis.] 1. [cap.] 
Same as Paddy 1 , 1. 2. Same aspaddyt, 3. 
3. A cheap almanac or calendar, on one sheet. 
Also called paddy and Paddy's watch. [Local, 
Eng.] 
pad-elephant (pad'eFe-fant), H. [< pad 1 + 
elephant. Cf. pad-horse, pad-nay.} A road- or 
working-elephant, as distinguished from a hunt- 
ing- or war-elephant. 
padeliont (pad'e-11-on), n. [< P. patte de lion, 
lit. lion's paw: 'patte, paw; de, of; lion, lion. 
Or else < F. pied de lion = Sp. piede leon = Pg. 
pe de leao = It. piede de leone, lion's foot: L. 
pes (ped-), foot; de, of; leo(n-), Hon.] A plant, 
Alchemilla vnlgaris. See lion's-foot. 
Pied de lion, lions foot, hare foot, ladies mantle, great 
sanicle, padelion. Cotgrave. 
padella (pa-del'a), n. [It., a frying-pan: see 
pail, patella.} A large metal or earthenware 
cup or deep saucer containing fatty matter in 
which a wick is inserted: used in illumina- 
tions. 
pademelon (pad'e-mel-on), n. [Also pad-melon, 
pedmelon, accom'. paddy-melon, and melon; an 
Australian name.] A brush-kangaroo or whal- 
labee ; an ordinary kangaroo of the genus Hal- 
matunts, such as H. thetidis and related species. 
See cut under Halmaturns. 
In the neighbourhood of these scrubs the game was 
especially plentiful ; and kangaroos, paddy-melons, walla- 
bees. and kangaroo rats crossed the road continually. 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 47. 
pad-hook (pad'hiik), n. 1. A kind of center- 
draft hook used on trawl-lines in New England 
since 1884, having the shank flattened at the 
upper end instead of an eye, whence the name. 
2. In saddlery, a curved hook on the back- 
pad for holding up the bearing-rein. 
pad-horset (pad'hors), n. [< pad\ a road, + 
horse 1 . Cf. pad-nag and pad 3 .} A road-horse; 
a pad-nag; a pad. 
Oh for a pad-horse, pack-horse, or a post-horse, 
To bear me on his neck, his back, or his croup! 
B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. 3. 
Padina (pa-dl'na), n. [NL. (Adanson, 1763).] 
A genus of olive-colored seaweeds with mem- 
branaceous or coriaceous broadly fan-shaped 
fronds, which maybe either entire or variously 
cleft, each lobe being then fan-shaped. The 
frond is smooth, olive-colored (or greenish toward the 
summit), and marked with concentric bands along each 
of which is developed a fringe of slender orange-colored 
jointed hairs. They are tufted annual plants, 2 to C inches 
in height^ growing on stones about low-water mark, mostly 
in warm seas. The common (perhaps the only) species 
' 
is P. pamnia, the peacock's-tail. 
padishah (pa'di-sha), n. [Pers. (> Turk.) pddi- 
shah, < pad, protector, master (Skt. pati, mas- 
ter: see despot), + shah, king: see shah.} Great 
king ; emperor : a title given by the Turks to the 
Sultan, and by extension to various European 
monarchs. 
padji (paj'i), H. [Ceylonese.] ACeyloneseboat. 
See mndel-paroou-a. 
