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Beater vs Paddle - What's the difference?

beater | paddle |

As nouns the difference between beater and paddle

is that beater is someone or something that beats while paddle is a two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.

As a verb paddle is

to propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.

beater

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something that beats.
  • A kitchen implement for mixing.
  • A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
  • A man who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, often working in a group.
  • A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
  • (US, informal) An automobile in poor operating condition.
    • Derived terms
    * eggbeater * world-beater
    Synonyms
    * (stick for a percussion instrument) drum stick

    Etymology 2

    By shortening from wife beater.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.

    • Anagrams

    * * *

    paddle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) padell (1407, "small spade"), from Medieval Latin padela, perhaps from (etyl) patella "pan, plate", the diminutive of patina

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
  • A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
  • Time spent on paddling.
    • We had a nice paddle this morning.
  • A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
  • A paddlewheel.
  • A blade of a waterwheel.
  • (video games, dated) 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 bat-shaped spanking implement
    • ''The paddle practically ousted the British cane as the spanker's attribute in the independent US
  • A ping-pong bat.
  • A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
    • ''A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow
  • In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
  • A group of inerts
  • A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode
    • Derived terms
    * paddler * paddleboat * paddle board * paddlewheel * paddle steamer * paddling * dog paddle * traffic paddle
    See also
    * oar

    Verb

  • To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
  • * L'Estrange
    • as the men were paddling for their lives
  • * (John Gay)
    • while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
    • Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe
  • To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
  • To spank with a paddle.
  • To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
  • * Shakespeare
    • to be paddling palms and pinching fingers.
  • To tread upon; to trample.

    • Etymology 2

    Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln "to tramp about," frequent. of padjen "to tramp, to run in short steps," from pad (also in Dutch dialects)

    Verb

  • (British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
  • To toddle
  • (archaic) To toy or caress using hands or fingers