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paddlings

paddlings is the plural of paddling.

Meaning of paddling

Noun

paddling (plural paddlings)

  1. The act of using a paddle.
  2. An act of corporal punishment consisting of spanking the buttocks with a paddle.
  3. (collective) A group of ducks (mallards, etc.) on the water.
    • Having detected, by sound, a fine paddling of ducks feeding in a small bay, the shore of which was skirted by a thick copse, to the shade of the latter I proceeded in my punt.1859, Henry Coleman FOLKARD, The Wild-Fowler: a Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling, Historical and Practical, page 233

Questions about paddlings

What is paddlings the plural of?
Paddlings is the plural of paddling.

Words near paddlings in the dictionary

  1. Paddley
  2. paddling
  3. paddling one's own canoe
  4. paddling pool
  5. paddling pools
  6. paddlings
  7. paddlogaine
  8. paddlogaines
  9. paddock
  10. paddock girl
  11. paddock girls

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