paddling crab (padlingkrab)

Same as paddle-crab. paddock1 (pad'ok), n. [Early mod. E. also padock, Scotch.] For who.. Would from a paddock , from a bat, a gib, Such dear concern ings hide? Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 189. Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand: Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to thee. Herrick, Another Grace for a Child. paddle-staff (pad'l-staf), n. with a broad iron, used by mole-catchers.-2. 2. The tadpole-fish. [Local, Scotch.] A spade with a long handle, used by plow-paddock2 (pad'ok), n. [A corruption of parrock , men to clear the share of earth, stubble, etc.; a paddle. paddle-tumbler (pad'l-tumblėr), n. In some operations of leather-manufacture, a water tank in which skins are washed while kept in constant motion by means of a paddle-wheel. Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 373.