▪ I. padle, paidle, n. Sc.
(ˈpeɪd(ə)l)
Also 6 paiddill, 7 pedle.
[app. Sc. form of paddle n.1: cf. Sc. pronunciation of daddle, saddle (ˈded(ə)l, ˈsed(ə)l).]
A field or garden hoe; a scraper of this shape.
| a 1568 Anon. in Bannatyne MS. 325/33 Ane pluche, ane paiddill, and ane palme corss. 1644 Register Univ. Edinb. 49 (MS.) Duties of the Bursars. To make clean the stairs from dirt and dust with a pedle and a Besome. a 1800 Old Scottish Song (Jam.), The gardener wi' his paidle. 1812 Forbes Poems 144 (E.D.D.) Spades an' padles an' a'. 1819 Thomson Poems 109 (E.D.D.) A coal-rake an' a paidle. |
Hence padle, paidle v. Sc. trans., to hoe; to loosen (the ground), scrape or ‘harl’ with a hoe.
| 1825 Jamieson, To Paidle, v.a., to hoe. 1884 Sir A. Grant Story Univ. Edin. I. 141 The bursars..were also to ‘paidell’ the stairs and entrances to the schools [cf. 1644 above]. Mod. Sc. All the cottagers were employed paidling turnips. |
▪ II. padle
obs. form of paddle.