padding machine (padingmashen")

calico - printing, an apparatus for imbuing cotton cloth uniformly with a mordant solution in the proce of dyeing. It consists of a combination of rollers for unwinding and receiving the fabric, which is caused to pa through a vat containing the mordant. paddlel (pad'l), v.; pret. and pp. paddled, ppr. paddling. [Also dial. paidle; prob. a var. of patt pattlel, fre freq. of pat1: see pattle1, pat1, patter1, Cf. pattle2, a var. of paddle2.] I. in trans. 1. To finger idly or fondly; toy or trifle with the fingers, as in fondling. Paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 185. 2. To dabble or play about in or as in water. And then to paddle in the purer stream Of his the Son of Glory's) spilt blood is more than most extreme. Quarles, Emblems, iii. 2. 5. To move in the water by means of webbed penguin, etc. Corper , Retirement, 1. 499. Ducks paddle in the pond before the door. II. trans. 1. To finger; play with; toy with. To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak., W. T., i. 2. 115. 2. To propel by paddle or oar: as, to paddle a canoe.-3. To strike with the open hand, or with some flat object, as a board; spank. [Colloq.] To paddle one's own canoe. See caпое.