Paddock
['pædək]
Definition
(noun.) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race.
Typed by Gladys--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A toad or frog.
(n.) A small inclosure or park for sporting.
(n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
Typist: Sharif
Definition
n. a toad or frog.—n. Padd′ock-stool a toadstool.
n. a small park under pasture immediately adjoining the stables of a domain: a small field in which horses are kept.
Editor: Sheldon
Examples
- Some distance off, across a paddock, lay a long gray-tiled out-building. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You have a few sheep in the paddock, he said. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But on the third morning after his arrival in Hertfordshire, she saw him, from her dressing-room window, enter the paddock and ride towards the house. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Beyond the flower-garden was a kitchen-garden, and then a paddock, and then a snug little rick-yard, and then a dear little farm-yard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We went downstairs and out to the paddock. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It looked into a garden, whence a wicket-gate opened into a small paddock; all beyond, was fine meadow-land and wood. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In a very few days he would come to me in the paddock when I called him, and eat out of my hand, and follow me about. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The paddock was fairly well filled with people and they were walking the horses around in a ring under the trees behind the grandstand. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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