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paddock

/ˈpædək/ · noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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