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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I had a friend who used “paddle lock.” Kind of makes sense, a padlock is sort of paddle shaped. Googling reveals that canoes and kayaks actually have paddle locks and there is one lock company that sells something called a paddle lock that isn’t a padlock. Plenty of misuses as well.
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