| paddle | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. paddle | small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games. |
| ~ bat | a club used for hitting a ball in various games. |
| ~ pingpong paddle, table-tennis bat, table-tennis racquet | paddle used to play table tennis. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. paddle | a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel. |
| ~ vane, blade | flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water. |
| ~ mill wheel, millwheel | water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill. |
| ~ paddle wheel, paddlewheel | a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. paddle | an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board. |
| ~ instrument of punishment | an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. boat paddle, paddle | a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat. |
| ~ oar | an implement used to propel or steer a boat. |
| v. (motion) | 5. paddle | propel with a paddle.; "paddle your own canoe" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ feather, square | turn the paddle; in canoeing. |
| ~ boat | ride in a boat on water. |
| v. (social) | 6. dabble, paddle, splash around | play in or as if in water, as of small children. |
| ~ play | be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children.; "The kids were playing outside all day"; "I used to play with trucks as a little girl" |
| v. (motion) | 7. paddle | swim like a dog in shallow water. |
| ~ aquatics, water sport | sports that involve bodies of water. |
| ~ swim | travel through water.; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" |
| v. (motion) | 8. coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle | walk unsteadily.; "small children toddle" |
| ~ walk | use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" |
| v. (contact) | 9. larrup, paddle, spank | give a spanking to; subject to a spanking. |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| v. (contact) | 10. paddle | stir with a paddle. |
| ~ stir | move an implement through.; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil" |
| row | | |
| n. (group) | 1. row | an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.; "a row of chairs" |
| ~ line | a formation of people or things one beside another.; "the line of soldiers advanced with their bayonets fixed"; "they were arrayed in line of battle"; "the cast stood in line for the curtain call" |
| ~ serration | a row of notches.; "the pliers had serrations to improve the grip" |
| ~ terrace | a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face).; "Grosvenor Terrace" |
| n. (communication) | 2. dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle | an angry dispute.; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" |
| ~ difference of opinion, dispute, difference, conflict | a disagreement or argument about something important.; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" |
| ~ affray, altercation, fracas | noisy quarrel. |
| ~ bicker, bickering, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff, fuss | a quarrel about petty points. |
| ~ bust-up | a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship). |
| n. (object) | 3. row | a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally).; "a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed wire protected the trenches" |
| ~ strip | a relatively long narrow piece of something.; "he felt a flat strip of muscle" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. course, row | (construction) a layer of masonry.; "a course of bricks" |
| ~ damp-proof course, damp course | a course of some impermeable material laid in the foundation walls of building near the ground to prevent dampness from rising into the building. |
| ~ layer, bed | single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" |
| ~ row of bricks | a course of bricks place next to each other (usually in a straight line). |
| ~ wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure.; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures" |
| n. (group) | 5. row | a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side. |
| ~ array | an orderly arrangement.; "an array of troops in battle order" |
| ~ table, tabular array | a set of data arranged in rows and columns.; "see table 1" |
| n. (attribute) | 6. row | a continuous chronological succession without an interruption.; "they won the championship three years in a row" |
| ~ chronological sequence, chronological succession, succession, successiveness, sequence | a following of one thing after another in time.; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" |
| n. (act) | 7. row, rowing | the act of rowing as a sport. |
| ~ feathering, feather | turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls. |
| ~ crab | a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply.; "he caught a crab and lost the race" |
| ~ sculling | rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell. |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| v. (motion) | 8. row | propel with oars.; "row the boat across the lake" |
| ~ stroke | row at a particular rate. |
| ~ feather, square | turn the oar, while rowing. |
| ~ boat | ride in a boat on water. |
| ~ pull | operate when rowing a boat.; "pull the oars" |
| ~ scull | propel with sculls.; "scull the boat" |
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