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paddock
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pæd?k/
Etymology 1
Alteration of Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosure, fence, paddock”), from Old English pearroc, pearruc (“enclosure, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“flowerbed, garden, pen”), German Pferch (“sheepfold, sheep-pen”), Danish park (“pond”). Related to park, spar.
Noun
paddock (plural paddocks)
- A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
- […] the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
- (Australia, New Zealand) 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.
- (motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- (field sports, slang) The playing field.
Derived terms
- heifer paddock
- long paddock
- paddockful
- Paddock Wood
Translations
Verb
paddock (third-person singular simple present paddocks, present participle paddocking, simple past and past participle paddocked)
- (transitive) To provide with a paddock.
- (transitive) To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
Etymology 2
From Middle English paddok, equivalent to pad (“frog or toad”) +? -ock.
Alternative forms
- padock (obsolete)
Noun
paddock (plural paddocks)
- (archaic or dialectal) A frog or toad.
- The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
- 1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth 1.1.10
- FIRST WITCH: I come, Graymalkin.
SECOND WITCH: Paddock calls.
THIRD WITCH: Anon.
- FIRST WITCH: I come, Graymalkin.
Derived terms
- paddock pipe
- paddock stone
- paddock stool
French
Etymology
From English paddock
Noun
paddock m (plural paddocks)
- paddock
- (slang) pad (bed)
Further reading
- “paddock” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Etymology
From English paddock. Doublet of parque.
Noun
paddock m (plural paddocks)
- (motor racing) paddock
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rangeland
English
Etymology
range +? land
Noun
rangeland (countable and uncountable, plural rangelands)
- (US) unimproved land that is suitable for the grazing of livestock
Anagrams
- engarland
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