Paddock

Quick meaning: Paddock is a noun meaning (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
2. An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
3. A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
4. To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

[H]e has delineated estates of romance, from which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.

[T]he two of them [Benjamin the donkey and Boxer the cart-horse] usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.

There was only the extent of a wide paddock and a lawn between the hall-door and that grand old gateway, and the house, though substantial and capacious, hardly pretended to the dignity of a mansion.

The Queen of Hearts was floodlit behind the petrol pumps: a Tudor barn converted, a vestige of a farmyard left in the arrangement of the restaurant and bars: a swimming pool where the paddock had been.

Word Forms

• paddocks
• paddocking
• paddocked
• padock

Synonyms for paddock

Depending on context, synonyms include assbreath, assbucket, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pen, pasture, stall, corral, bullpen, yard.

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