1. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
2. The material with which anything is padded.
3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. London Sat. Rev.
4. (Calico Printing)
Defn: The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
PADDLE Pad"dle, v. i. Etym: [Prob. for pattle, and a dim. of pat, v.; cf. also E. pad to tread, Prov. G. paddeln, padden, to walk with short steps, to paddle, G. patschen to splash, dash, dabble, F. patouiller to dabble, splash, fr. patte a paw.
1. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay.
PADDLE
Pad"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Paddling]
1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak.