Crossword clues for paddock
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paddock \Pad"dock\, n. [Corrupted fr. parrock. See Parrock.]
A small inclosure or park for sporting. [Obs.]
A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
--Evelyn.
--Cowper.An enclosure used for saddling and mounting horses prior to a race.
Paddock \Pad"dock\, n. [OE. padde toad, frog + -ock; akin to D.
pad, padde, toad, Icel. & Sw. padda, Dan. padde.] (Zo["o]l.)
A toad or frog.
--Wyclif. ``Loathed paddocks.''
--Spenser
Paddock pipe (Bot.), a hollow-stemmed plant of the genus Equisetum, especially Equisetum limosum and the fruiting stems of Equisetum arvense; -- called also padow pipe and toad pipe. See Equisetum.
Paddock stone. See Toadstone.
Paddock stool (Bot.),a toadstool.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a frog, a toad," c.1300, diminutive of pad "toad," from Old Norse padda; common Germanic (Swedish padda, Danish padde, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch padde "frog, toad," also Dutch schildpad "tortoise"), of unknown origin and with no certain cognates outside Germanic.
"an enclosure," 1620s, alteration of Middle English parrock, from Old English pearroc "enclosed space, fence" (see park (n.)). Or possibly from Medieval Latin parricus (8c.), which ultimately is from Germanic.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. ''(archaic except in dialects)'' A frog or toad. n. ''(archaic except in dialects)'' A frog or toad. Etymology 2
n. 1 A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses. 2 (context Australia New Zealand English) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle. 3 An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race. 4 Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property. 5 (context motor racing English) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races. vb. To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
WordNet
n. pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A Paddock is an enclosure for horses. It may also refer to:
Paddock is the codeword for an alternative Cabinet War Room bunker for Winston Churchill's World War II government located in Brook Road, Dollis Hill, northwest London under a corner of the Post Office Research Station site. It was constructed in total secrecy in 1939 but only rarely used during the war, with only two meetings of the War Cabinet being held there. It was abandoned in 1944.
It comprises some forty rooms on two floors, is semi-derelict with original equipment abandoned and rusted, and a certain amount of water ingress which is kept at bay by an electric extraction pump.
Paddock has had various, intermittent uses since (including a brief period where what is thought to be the map room was used as a Post Office staff social club) but otherwise the site remains largely disused and empty as it was when it was decommissioned at the end of World War II.
The bunker is owned by Network Housing, the housing association responsible for the homes now occupying part of the former research station site above, and is open to the public two or three times a year, with free guided tours provided by volunteers from the Subterranea Britannica organisation. It featured on the Channel 5 programme, Underground Britain.
A paddock has two primary meanings in different parts of the English-speaking world. In Canada, the USA and UK, a paddock is a small enclosure used to keep horses. The most common design provides an area for exercise and is often situated near the stables. Larger paddocks may have grass maintained in them, but many are dirt or a similar natural surface. In those cases drainage and a top layer of sand are often used to keep a suitable surface in the paddock. In the American West, such an enclosure is often called a corral, and may be used to contain cattle or horses, occasionally other livestock. The word paddock is also used to describe other small, fenced areas that hold horses, such as a saddling paddock at a racetrack, the area where race horses are saddled before a horse race.
In New Zealand and Australia, however, a paddock is a field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle. It is normally fenced and defined by its natural boundaries, or is otherwise considered distinct. In that part of the world, a "Back Paddock" is a smaller field that is situated away from the farm house; possibly land of lesser quality. The equivalent concept in North America and the UK is a pasture.
In a new style of ranching developed in North America, featured in the Peter Byck short film Carbon Soil Cowboys, a paddock is a small (perhaps 1 acre) temporary subdivision of a pasture made with electric fencing, which is intensely grazed for a day and then left to rest for perhaps 80 days or more.
Paddock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Algernon Paddock (1830–1897), American politician
- Charlie Paddock (1900–1943), American athlete and actor
- Del Paddock (1887–1952), American baseball player
- Francis Paddock (1814–1889), American frontier doctor
- George A. Paddock (1885–1964), American politician
- John Paddock (footballer) (1876–1965), British football player
- John Paddock (born 1954), Canadian hockey coach
- Richard B. Paddock (1859–1901), American cavalry officer
- Tom Paddock (c. 1822–1863), British boxing champion
Usage examples of "paddock".
For weeks Jimmy tied Bonfire in his stall or at the paddock fence for a few minutes each day, teaching the colt to stand tied and to respect the rope holding him.
Paddock Lane, adding their shadows to the already darkish day, Loman was sure of what he had seen.
Before Querida could turn to see what was going on, or Derk could move, a confused crowd of excited animals swept around the corner of the paddock and galloped straight through the spot where Querida was standing.
Beyond the foaling boxes lay a wide path between two small paddocks of about half an acre each, and at the end of the path, to the left, rose a fair-sized barn with a row of windows just below its roof.
Good stockmen were easy to come by, and Paddy had nine single men on his books in the old jackaroo barracks, so Stuart could be spared from the paddocks.
Besides the manager and the jackeroos, there were a few boundary riders to prowl round the fences of the vast paddocks.
She named birds for him, a rogue kookaburra laughing from a cluster of trees at the edge of the paddock, a pair of wedge tail eagles circling overhead.
Down below him, a little to his left, were the crimson roofs of Latchetts, set in the neat squares of paddock.
Inside the paddock on well worn grass a man and an auburn-haired woman stood beside a bright red-and-white show jump like a length of mutation brick wall exhorting another man on a dark muscly horse to launch himself over it.
He edged around the buildings and saw Nid and Leary off at the far end of the rough paddock turning circles in a chariot.
Monday, Hugh, Poss, and Binjie had to go out to an outlying paddock to draft a lot of station-sheep from a mob of travelling-sheep.
She said goodbye to the cheeses in the dairy and the sheep in the paddock and even to Ratbag the cat.
The path was leading downhill, first across the relatively smooth turf of the back paddock, now along the much harder, rockier path that led into the woods along the river.
Tarquin, the huge white Yorkshire boar-pig, had exchanged the narrow limits of his stye for the wider range of the grass paddock.
By dint of throwing the fruit in front of him at judicious intervals Matilda decoyed him back to his stye, while the delivered captives hurried across the paddock.