paddock
see also: Paddock
Pronunciation
Paddock
Proper noun
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see also: Paddock
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpædək/
paddock (plural paddocks)
- A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
- […] the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
- An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
- (motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- (field sports, slang) The playing field.
- German: Fahrerlager
paddock (paddocks, present participle paddocking; past and past participle paddocked)
- (transitive) To provide with a paddock.
- (transitive) To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
paddock (plural paddocks)
- (archaic or dialectal) A frog or toad.
- Soothly if thou wilt not deliver, lo! I shall smite all thy terms with paddocks. (Exodus 8:2)
- The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
- 1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth 1.1.10
- FIRST WITCH: I come, Graymalkin.
SECOND WITCH: Paddock calls.
THIRD WITCH: Anon.
- FIRST WITCH: I come, Graymalkin.
Paddock
Proper noun
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