paddock
/ˈpædək/ · noun
Meaning
- A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
- A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
- An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
- An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- (field sports) The playing field.
- To provide with a paddock.
- To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
- A frog or toad.
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