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Paddle

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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Bat 76% connected

A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blade 76% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Boat 76% connected

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Oar 76% connected

An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stir 76% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Swim 76% connected

To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Vane 76% connected

A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Walk 76% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 2

Feather 76% connected

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Square 76% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reeler 74% connected

One who reels.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Reeler 74% connected

One who reels.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 8

Coggle 92% connected

A small fishing boat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Dabble 92% connected

To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dodder 92% connected

A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Larrup 92% connected

To beat or flog soundly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spank 92% connected

To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Toddle 92% connected

To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Totter 92% connected

To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Waddle 92% connected

To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to tod…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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