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Spoon-billed :: Spoonbill (n.) The paddlefish.

Catamaran :: Catamaran (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle..

Selachostomi :: Selachostomi (n. pl.) A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth..

Padder :: Padder (n.) One who, or that which, paddles..

Feather :: Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water..

Loof :: Loof (n.) Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind..

Mosasaurus :: Mosasaurus (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands..

Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Paddlecock :: Paddlecock (n.) The lumpfish.

Sea Turtle :: Sea turtle () Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas..

Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder..

Water Wheel :: Water wheel () The paddle wheel of a steam vessel.

Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..

Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast..

Stern-wheeler :: Stern-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc..

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