A short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat.
1 These proved to be not too high to shoot, and the boats paddled over them.
2 He is having his own boat paddled about uncertainly.
3 An hour later a negro in a boat paddled out to us with an answer.
4 Their vessel was starting to manoeuvre into the harbour, squat tug- boats paddling up to meet it.
5 Several rafts and a small boat paddled in the distance, perhaps a mile out upon the water.
6 It will entertain me far more than gazing at a lot of illuminated boats paddling about the lake.
7 Those in boats paddled quickly away.
8 Some of them use boat paddles to shovel sand onto the backs of trainees still doing pushups and into their boats.
9 Another boat paddling up the lake had been spied: solitude was not merely shared with a rival, but violated by numbers.
10 The men in the boat paddled away after him, but that was more than I could stand, so I went after them.
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