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knee-paddling

knee-paddling is the present participle and gerund of knee-paddle.

Meaning of knee-paddle

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

Questions about knee-paddling

What is knee-paddling the present participle and gerund of?
Knee-paddling is the present participle and gerund of knee-paddle.

Words near knee-paddling in the dictionary

  1. knee-length
  2. knee-pad
  3. knee-paddle
  4. knee-paddled
  5. knee-paddles
  6. knee-paddling
  7. knee-pads
  8. knee-slapper
  9. knee-slappers
  10. knee-slapping
  11. knee-tremble

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knee-paddling (page history and authors); knee-paddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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