double paddle
Americannoun
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The double paddle makes less splash than the oars, and if one can use the Canadian single blade, it does not make any noise at all.
From Black Bass Where to catch them in quantity within an hour's ride from New York by Charles Barker Bradford
A double paddle was fashioned from a board 1 inch thick, 6 inches wide and 6 feet long.
From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond
Though the waves dash over him, scarcely a drop enters the craft as he skims along with his double paddle among cakes of floating ice.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
The double paddle has a hickory pole, 7 ft. long and 2 in. in diameter, for its center part.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
The double paddle is not to be recommended to the exclusion of the single blade, but there are many times when there is an advantage in its use.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
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