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paddock
1[ pad-uhk ]
noun
- a small, usually enclosed field near a stable or barn for pasturing or exercising animals.
- the enclosure in which horses are saddled and mounted before a race.
- Australian. any enclosed field or pasture.
verb (used with object)
- to confine or enclose in or as in a paddock.
paddock
2[ pad-uhk ]
noun
- Archaic. a frog or toad.
paddock
1/ ˈpædək /
noun
- a small enclosed field, often for grazing or training horses, usually near a house or stable
- (in horse racing) the enclosure in which horses are paraded and mounted before a race, together with the accompanying rooms
- (in motor racing) an area near the pits where cars are worked on before races
- any area of fenced land
- a playing field
- the long paddock informal.the long paddock a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
verb
- tr to confine (horses, etc) in a paddock
paddock
2/ ˈpædək /
noun
- archaic.a frog or toad Also called (Scot)puddock
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Example Sentences
The atmosphere of the stables and the breath of the blue grass paddock revived in her memory and lingered in her nostrils.
It looked into a garden, whence a wicket-gate opened into a small paddock; all beyond was fine meadow-land and wood.
On the highest point of the pass they met an inbound pack train belonging to the Thirty-six, in charge of one Paddock.
We had sixty horse-posts driven in the gate paddock; how many guests I cannot guess, perhaps 150.
Well, you young genl'men du have rare goings on down in the paddock, that you du.'
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