Peddle vs. Paddle — What's the Difference?

Try to sell (something, especially small goods) by going from place to place

A paddle is a tool used for pushing against liquids, either as a form of propulsion of a boat (paddling) or as an implement for mixing.

To travel about selling (wares)

A short pole with a broad blade at one or both ends, used without a rowlock to move a small boat or canoe through the water

To engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics).

A flat array of solar cells projecting from a spacecraft.

(Informal) To seek to disseminate; give out

A plastic-covered electrode used in cardiac stimulation.

To travel about selling wares.

An act of walking with bare feet in shallow water

To occupy oneself with trifles.

Move through the water in a boat using a paddle or paddles

To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.

Beat (someone) with a paddle as a punishment

To sell illegal narcotics.

Walk with bare feet in shallow water

To spread or cause to spread.

An implement with a flat blade at one or both ends, held in the hands without an oarlock and passed through the water to propel a small boat such as a canoe.

To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

(Sports) A light wooden or plastic racket used in playing table tennis, platform tennis, and similar games.

To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.

A flat board with a handle used to administer physical punishment.

To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

A blade or shovellike implement used for stirring or mixing.

Sell or offer for sale from place to place

(Medicine) A flat electrode that is part of a defibrillator and is put on a patient's chest to deliver an electric shock to the heart.

A board on a paddle wheel.

A flipper or flattened appendage of certain animals.

(Botany) See pad1.

The act of paddling.

To propel a watercraft with paddles or a paddle.

To row slowly and gently.

To move through water by means of repeated short strokes of the limbs.

To propel (a watercraft) with paddles or a paddle.

To convey in a watercraft propelled by paddles.

To spank or beat with a paddle, especially as a punishment.

To stir or shape (material) with a paddle.

To dabble about in shallow water; splash gently with the hands or feet.

To move with a waddling motion; toddle.

A two-handed implement consisting of a shaft with one or two blades attached to the end(s) used to propel a canoe, kayak or a small boat. A paddle is unattached to the boat and freely operated with the hands, compared with an oar which is attached to the boat at a pivot point.

A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats.

A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.

The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.

A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.

A paddlewheel.

A blade of a waterwheel.

A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.

(British) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.

A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.

A broad, flat spanking implement.

(ping pong) A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.

A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.

A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.

In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.

A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.

(slang) A person's hand.

(medicine) A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.

Alternative form of padel

(transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.

(intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.

(transitive) To spank with a paddle.

To pat or stroke amorously or gently.

To tread upon; to trample.

To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.

(intransitive) To dog paddle in water.

To toddle.

To toy or caress using hands or fingers.

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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.

To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

To pad; to tread upon; to trample.

To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; - usually as a disciplinary punishment of children.

To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a paddle.

An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made;

One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - also called clough.

A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing.

See Paddle staff (b), below.

Small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games

A blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel

An instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board

A short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat

Propel with a paddle;

Play in or as if in water, as of small children

Swim like a dog in shallow water

Walk unsteadily;

Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

Stir with a paddle