Meaning

noun a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

noun the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)

noun a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp

originFrom Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-West Germanic *paddā, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle. Doublet of pode

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