paddle

To finger idly or fondly; toy or trifle with the fingers, as in fondling.

To dabble or play about in or as in water.

To sail or swim along or about with short strokes of a paddle or oar; row or move about or along by means of a paddle.

To move along by means of paddles or float-boards, as a steamboat.

To move in the water by means of webbed feet, flippers, or fins, as a duck, turtle, fish, penguin, etc.

To finger; play with; toy with.

To propel by paddle or oar: as, to paddle a canoe.

To strike with the open hand, or with some flat object, as a board; spank.

A small spade, especially a small spade used to clean a plow; a plow-staff; a paddle-staff.

An oar; specifically, a sort of short oar having one blade or two (one at each end), held in the hands (not resting in the rowlock) and dipped into the water with a more or less vertical motion: used especially for propelling canoes.