Associations to the word «Paddock»

Wiktionary

PADDOCK, noun. (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.
PADDOCK, noun. A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
PADDOCK, noun. (Australia) (New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
PADDOCK, noun. An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
PADDOCK, noun. Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
PADDOCK, noun. (motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
PADDOCK, verb. To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.

Dictionary definition

PADDOCK, noun. Pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats