Usually means: Enclosed field for horses, livestock.
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  1. paddock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. paddock: Merriam-Webster
  3. paddock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. paddock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. paddock: Collins English Dictionary
  6. paddock: Vocabulary.com
  7. Paddock, paddock: Wordnik
  8. paddock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Paddock, paddock: Wiktionary
  10. paddock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. paddock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. paddock: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Paddock, paddock: Dictionary.com
  14. paddock (1), paddock (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Paddock (disambiguation), Paddock (war rooms), Paddock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Paddock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. paddock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. paddock: Rhymezone
  19. Paddock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. paddock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Paddock: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. paddock: FreeDictionary.org
  23. paddock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. paddock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. paddock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. paddock: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. paddock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Paddock: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Paddock: Gambling Glossary
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Paddock: Sports Definitions

(Note: See paddocking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
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.

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