Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
paddle . - noun Same as
paddle .
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Examples
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If he liked a book ill, he liked a plough or a pattle worse.
The Monastery 2008
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My spelling comes into play when the real issue is Gore and his work of fiction, typical liberal ploy, instead of staying on topic cloud the issues with worthless pattle …
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Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
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Gott, great, great pattle -- many sleep no more but in death.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 Various
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Hambright, sorely wounded, his boot overflowing with blood and his hat riddled with three bullet holes, declined to dismount, but pressed gallantly forward, exclaiming in his "Pennsylvania Dutch": "Huzza, my prave poys, fight on a few minutes more, and the pattle will be over!"
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920
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Your grandfather of famous memory, ant please your majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
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I haf zeen on the fieldt of pattle the voarst eggsipitions of human paseness -- chelousy, fanity, ecodistic bridte.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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I haf zeen on the fieldt of pattle the voarst eggsipitions of human paseness -- chelousy, fanity, ecodistic bridte.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878
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I haf zeen on the fieldt of pattle the voarst eggsipitions of human paseness -- chelousy, fanity, ecodistic bridte.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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I nefer did pe learning it, yat I nefer haf to say to myself 'What is it she would be saying?' when I speak ta Gaelic; put she always has to set ta tead men -- that is ta vords -- on their feet, and put tem in pattle array, when she would pe speaking ta dull mechanic English.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
biocon commented on the word pattle
Pattle is 1. a tool like a small spade with a long handle, used chiefly to remove earth adhering to a plow (plough); a plow-staff (plough-staff); 2. hoe; 3. scraper resembling a hoe (Oxford English Dictionary).
October 12, 2011