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paddle

noun as in item used for propelling object

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verb as in propel with arms or tool

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These boats will be paddled down the river to tow and guide the barge.

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“When I’m playing, it zones out,” Anna Leigh Waters says of that unmistakable, plastic pop, pop, pop distinct to the wildly popular paddle sport—and a bane to fussy condo boards everywhere.

Most of the thirteen-man crew were already overboard, paddling between floating puddles of burning fuel.

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They floated there, quietly cleaning their feathers, until, below the water, their webbed feet started paddling, and they swam to shore and waddled onto a pebble beach.

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The robot’s greatest fear was deep water, and now she was paddling through the waves and out to sea.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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