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knee-paddle

knee-paddle verb: to paddle while kneeling.

Verb

knee-paddle (third-person singular simple present knee-paddles, present participle knee-paddling, simple past and past participle knee-paddled)

  1. (canoeing) To paddle while kneeling.
    • I knee-paddled back to the break. That's one of the great things about long boards, one can get up on ones ^([sic]) knees and paddle much faster. And stay dry on cold days!2019, Stephen Brooke, Smoke, page 110

Forms of knee-paddle

third-person singular presentknee-paddles
present participleknee-paddling
past participleknee-paddled
pastknee-paddled

Questions about knee-paddle

What does knee-paddle mean?
Knee-paddle means to paddle while kneeling.
What part of speech is knee-paddle?
Knee-paddle is a verb.
What is the past tense of knee-paddle?
The past tense of knee-paddle is knee-paddled.

Words near knee-paddle in the dictionary

  1. knee-jerkism
  2. knee-jerks
  3. knee-jerky
  4. knee-length
  5. knee-pad
  6. knee-paddle
  7. knee-paddled
  8. knee-paddles
  9. knee-paddling
  10. knee-pads
  11. knee-slapper

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