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P PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING PACKET or PACKET-BOAT PADDLE PAINTER PALM PANCH PARBUCKLE PARCELING PARLIAMENT-HEEL PARREL PARSLING PARTING to PAYING-OFF PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT PIN of a block to PLANKING PLAT to POLE-MAST Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME PRATIC to PROP PROTEST to PURSER Search Contact us
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PADDLEPADDLE, (pagaie, Fr. pattal, Welsh) a sort of oar tiled by the savages of Africa and America to navigate their canoes. It is much shorter and broader in the blade than the oars of a boat, and is equally employed in rowing and steering. See the article CANOE.
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