paddock

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses…

   A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.

   • Upon this information, they instantly passed through the hall once more, and ran across the lawn after their father, who was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock.
   • [H]e has delineated estates of romance, from which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.
2. 2

   An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and…

   An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.

   • You remind me of a two-year-old, Dinny—one of those whipcordy chestnuts that kick up their heels in the paddock, get left at the post, and come in first after all.
3. 3

   An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and…

   An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.

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   1. 4

      A field on which a game is played

      A field on which a game is played; a playing field.

   2. 5

      A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical…

      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.

   3. 6

      A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to…

      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.

   4. 7

      To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1…

      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.

      • In the district of which I am speaking the sheep are all "paddocked," —that is to say, kept in by fences—so that shepherding is unnecessary.
   5. 8

      To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.

      • When a run is "paddocked," shepherds are not required;—but boundary-riders are employed, each of whom is supplied with two horses, and these men are responsible not only for the sheep but for the fences.
   6. 9

      To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a…

      To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).

   7. 10

      To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock (noun sense 2.5).

   8. 11

      A frog.

      • Cold as a paddock.
   9. 12

      A toad.

      • Where I was wont to ſeeke the honey Bee, / Working her formall rowmes in Wexen frame: / The grieſlie Todeſtoole growne there mought I ſe / And loathed Paddocks lording on the ſame.
      • Padock calls anon: faire is foule, and foule is faire, / Houer through the fogge and filthie ayre.
      • [F]rom the hall wherein the mourners died / A grey wolf glared, and o'er his head the bat / Hung, and the paddock on the hearth-stone sat.
   10. 13

       A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.

       • [T]here was grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock’s heart of him.
   11. 14

       A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.

   12. 15

       An English surname.

       • But 64-year-old Stephen C. Paddock flew low under the radar. He avoided interaction with many of the people around him, and his manner was direct and brusque.

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