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pad⋅dock

1  [pad-uhk]
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–noun
1. a small, usually enclosed field near a stable or barn for pasturing or exercising animals.
2. the enclosure in which horses are saddled and mounted before a race.
3. Australian. any enclosed field or pasture.
–verb (used with object)
4. to confine or enclose in or as in a paddock.
Origin:
1540–50; var. of ME parrok, with r heard as flapped d; OE pearroc enclosure, orig. fence. See park

pad⋅dock

2  [pad-uhk]
–noun
Archaic. a frog or toad.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME paddok(e), deriv. of early ME pad toad (cf. E dial. pad frog); akin to D, LG pad, ON padda; see -ock
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pad·dock   (pād'ək)   
n.  

  1. A fenced area, usually near a stable, used chiefly for grazing horses.

  2. Sports

    1. An enclosure at a racetrack where the horses are assembled, saddled, and paraded before each race.

    2. An area of an automobile racetrack where cars are prepared before a race.

  3. Australian A piece of fenced-in land.

tr.v.   pad·docked, pad·dock·ing, pad·docks
To confine in a paddock.

[Alteration of Middle English parrok, from Old English pearroc.]
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