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▸ noun: (by extension)
▸ noun: (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
▸ noun: (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
▸ noun: (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
▸ noun: (Australia, New Zealand) 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.
▸ noun: (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) 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.
▸ verb: (often passive voice) 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.
▸ verb: To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
▸ verb: (mining)
▸ verb: (also intransitive) To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
▸ verb: (obsolete) To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock (noun sense 2.5).
▸ noun: (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
▸ noun: A frog.
▸ noun: A toad.
▸ noun: (derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
▸ noun: (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
puddock,
paddockful,
long paddock,
pastureland,
pasturage,
pasture,
pick,
eatage,
pinfold,
lease,
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