paddock
/ˈpædək/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
noun
An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
noun
An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
noun
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.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage
noun
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.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "A jargonell pear tree at one end of the cottage, a rivulet, and flower-plot of a rood in extent, in front, and a kitchen-garden behind; a paddock for a cow, and a small field, cultivated with several crops of grain rather for the benefit of the cottager than for sale, announced the warm and cordial comforts which Old England, even at her most northern extremity, extends to her meanest inhabitants."
- "[H]e has delineated estates of romance, from which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks."
- "They were not members of a country where literature is confined to its little paddock, without influence on the larger field (part lawn, part marsh) of the social world: they were readers in sympathetic action with thinkers and literary artists."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpædək/
- British English: /ˈpædək/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.