subs. (common).—The hand: see DADDLE.

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  Verb. (common).—1.  To drink: hence TO HAVE PADDLED = to be intoxicated: see DRINKS and SCREWED.

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  2.  (venery).—To play with a woman; to mess about: see FIRKYTOODLE.

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  1604.  SHAKESPEARE, Winter’s Tale, i. 7. PADDLING palms and pinching fingers.

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  1847.  HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. PADDLE … etiam designat molliter manibus tractare aliquid et agitare, as TO PADDLE in a ladies neck or bosom.

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  3.  (American).—To go or run away.

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  See CANOE.

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