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forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.

ding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar. Totten. To reef the paddles, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.

An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. His saddle was of rewel boon. Chaucer.

To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. To ride easy (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent pitching or straining at the cables. -- To ride hard (Naut.), to pitch violently. -- To ride out. (a) To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To…

A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.

The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell.

ling land. [U.S.] Rolling bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. -- Rolling circle of a paddle wheel, the circle described by the point whose velocity equals the velocity of the ship. J. Bourne. -- Rolling fire (Mil.), a discharge of firearms by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they st…

To raddle or twist. [Obs.]

Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.

pon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.

A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth.

A saddle for a horse. [Obs.] He left his lofty steed with golden self. Spenser.

The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. Piers Plowman. Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys.

Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.

A saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass. [Western U.S.]

A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.

The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backw…

One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.

The paddlefish.