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Definition of Paddock
1. Noun. Pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race.
Definition of Paddock
1. n. A toad or frog.
2. n. A small inclosure or park for sporting.
Definition of Paddock
1. Noun. ''(archaic except in dialects)'' A frog or toad. ¹
2. Noun. A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses. ¹
3. Noun. An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race. ¹
4. Noun. Land, fenced or otherwise delimited which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property. ¹
5. Noun. (motor racing) an area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races. ¹
6. Verb. To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paddock
1. to confine in an enclosure for horses [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Paddock
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Paddock
Literary usage of Paddock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"paddock-ride, Ramsay. A shot starn—thro' the air Skyts east and west with unco
glare ; But found neist day on hillock side, Na better seems nor paddock nie. ..."
2. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"paddock dashed in, but was met with another smasher on the snout. ... paddock
determinedly rattled in and tickled Aaron on the left side of his occiput. ..."
3. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"paddock Wood, whence a branch-line diverges on the left to (10 M.) Maidstone (p.35),
traversing the best hop-district in the kingdom. ..."
4. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of by Ellery Bicknell Crane (1907)
"Reuben paddock and Jonathan Paine, of Harwich, Massachusetts, ... They subsequently
divided the land, and paddock settled on his share in Holden. ..."
5. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"BY JVS paddock. [James V. Seaman paddock, military expert, born in Illinois, and
appointed from that state Sept. 1,1873 to the United States military ..."
6. The New Zealand Law Reports by New Zealand Council of Law Reporting, New Zealand Court of Appeal, New Zealand Supreme Court, New Zealand Court of Arbitration, New Zealand Court of Review (1896)
"31202, 31140, and 25348, known as part nf the ram paddock, containing 151 acres
3 roods, to the trustees of the St. Asaph Street United Methodist Free ..."
7. Forty Years of Nebraska at Home and in Congress by Thomas Weston Tipton (1902)
"GOVERNOR AS paddock. 1862, 1867. I Hon. AS paddock came to Nebraska under the
most favorable circumstances possible for a young man of ambitious tendencies, ..."
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