paddock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
mining
motor-racing
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: The noun is almost certainly a variant of dialectal British parrock (“enclosure; park; croft, small field, paddock”), from Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosed pasture, paddock; coop; feeding stall; cabin, hut”) [and other forms], from Old English pearroc, pearruc (“fence used to enclose a space; area enclosed by such a fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *parruk (“enclosure; pen for animals”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence; enclosure”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *barō (“bar, beam; barrier”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”). Equivalent to park + -ock. Doublet of park.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Danish park (“pond”)
* Dutch perk (“flowerbed; garden; pen”)
* German Pferch (“sheepfold, sheep-pen”)
Inflected forms:
form: paddocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paddocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paddocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paddocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paddocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
examples: 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.
[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.
gloss: An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock. […] The paddock was fairly well filled with people and they were walking the horses around in a ring under the trees behind the grand stand.
You remind me of a two-year-old, Dinny—one of those whipcordy chestnuts that kick up their heels in the paddock, get left at the post, and come in first after all.
gloss: An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
slang
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
broadly
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
broadly
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
transitive
examples: In the district of which I am speaking the sheep are all "paddocked," —that is to say, kept in by fences—so that shepherding is unnecessary.
Now, if you went down into the forest where the spring gum-tips gleam gold and ruby in whatever sunshine, Heaven thinks fit to apportion at this season to residents of the Dandenongs (who surely were all born Aquarians) what sign of the Zodiac would you expect to meet? [...] Not Taurus the Bull, who is paddocked, or Cancer the Crab, who lives underground in these regions.
gloss: To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
transitive
examples: When a run is "paddocked," shepherds are not required;—but boundary-riders are employed, each of whom is supplied with two horses, and these men are responsible not only for the sheep but for the fences.
gloss: To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
also
intransitive
transitive
gloss: To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock (noun sense 2.5).
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
obsolete
transitive
Derived words: a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
kangaroos in the top paddock
long paddock
paddockful
Paddock Wood
Pagan's paddock
paddock-stool
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