Definition of "paddled" [paddled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of paddle. (verb)

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• "Three hundred and ninety years ago, Samuel de Champlain paddled our lakes and rivers in search of trade and investment opportunities."
• "Smilla's mother was a hunter: "She shot and paddled a kayak and dragged meat home like a man.""
• "Thus it was that, as the pale Arctic sun touched the flat horizon of sea and ice, Harvey Keats paddled a kayak out to the nearest of the ice floes, a remote camera attached to the boat's prow trained on his tousle-haired face, a remote microphone catching every word of his nonstop narration."