paddock
IPA: pˈædʌk
noun
- (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- (by extension)
- (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
- (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
- A frog.
- A toad.
- (derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
- (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
- A surname.
verb
- (often passive voice) To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture.
- To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
- (mining)
- (also intransitive) To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
- (obsolete) To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock (noun sense 2.5).
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Examples of "paddock" in Sentences
- A paddock is the best night accommodation for a donkey.
- Hales heard firing in the paddock at the end of the hut.
- A paddock and stable are on the southern border of the garden.
- The paddock was anything but level but the offer was accepted.
- A statue of Secretariat is in the center of the Belmont paddock.
- Gilbert's body was buried in the police paddock behind the station.
- In 1899, the paddock in the western section of the park was created.
- The pit and paddock complex was located at the end of this straight.
- He has escaped the paddock and is running freely, trampling the grass.
- The sheep have won if they manage to fill the paddock, the red square.
- The paddock is set amid elms, maples, and vendors of sugary confections.
- He walked towards the paddock and was met by the guard of the passenger train.
- In the center of the paddock is a marker of some sort, usually slightly elevated.
- The tree in the paddock is so loaded down with Bramleys, the branches are bending halfway to the ground.
- In Old English, a related word is pearroc, which refers to an enclosure holding farm animals, just as its descendant word paddock does today.
- Perhaps the first land fenced was too small to be called a field; the word paddock was extended in reference as more land was fenced and field is seldom heard as a topographical term in Australia.
- Towards the north end of the paddock was a narrow gully with great sandstone walls all round, and where it narrowed the first discoverers had built a stockyard, partly with dry stone walls and partly with logs and rails.