paddockn.1
/ˈpadək/, U.S. /ˈpædək/, Scottish English /ˈpadək/, Irish English /ˈpædək/ Now chiefly Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (chiefly northern).
1.
a. A frog.Recorded earliest in paddock-pipe n.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog
froshc1000
frouda1200
toada1300
paddockc1300
paddoc1480
hipfrog1611
croaker1651
Dutch nightingale1769
froggy?1800
fen-nightingalea1825
yellowbellyc1825
greenback1876
c1300 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 74 [Cauda Pulli] padokpipe.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Exod. viii. 2 Y schal smyte alle thi termys with paddoks [a1425 E.V. frogges]; and the flood schal buyle out paddokis.
a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 8 Vana [read Rana], a paddoke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 502/2 My bely crowleth, I wene there be some padockes in it,..des grenouilles dedans.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 186 There be three kinds of Frogs..the first is the little greene Frog: the second is this Padocke, hauing a crooke back..and the third is the Toade.
1649 in M. V. Hay Blairs Papers (1929) 56 As there be puddockes in the ponds and marishes of Mauberge.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 120 The water-Snake, whom Fish and Paddocks fed. View more context for this quotation
1724 A. Ramsay Health 65 Bak'd puddock's legs.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Paddick, or Paddock, a frog... Never a toad.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters xii. 250 Are we eels or puddocks, that we are sent to live in a loch?
1922 J. Horne Poems 36 Green's 'e sappy dutches, Far 'e puddags peep.
1934 J. M. Caie Kindly North 42 A puddock sat by the lochan's brim, An' he thocht there was never a puddock like him.
1951 M. Smith Brit. Amphibians & Reptiles iv. 93 Paddock is still used locally in Scotland and northern England for the frog.
1986 W. Kay Scots (1988) 113 Lady Perth..said to a Frenchman who was boasting of the superiority of the French cuisine..: ‘Weel, weel, some folk like parritch, and some like puddocks.’
2002 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 7 Sept. 20 Up jumped a puddock that gien us baith a fear.
b. A toad.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > toad
pad?a1160
frouda1200
podea1325
boterel1340
paddocka1425
frog1440
paddoc1480
crapaud1481
gangrel?a1513
hedge-frog1580
frog-paddock1651
hop-toad1827
a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 4850 (MED) Euetis and snakes and paddokes brode, Þat heom þouȝte mete gode.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 376 Paddok, toode, bufo.
c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 750 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 50 Þan þai..a padok gert hym drink in hy.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/2 Paddocke, crapavlt.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 70 The grieslie Todestoole..And loathed Paddocks lording on the same.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Paddock,..a Toad.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 240 O'er his head the bat Hung, and the paddock on the hearth-stone sat.
1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) 30 Apr. 10 Toads (or paddocks, a dialect British name) are rather more threatening than frogs.
2000 Scotsman 11 May 36 One of the other names for the toad is ‘puddock’, but that can be confusing as it is also an alternative name for the red kite.
c. derogatory. A contemptible, mean, or spiteful person.In quot. a1616: a familiar spirit in the form of a toad.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused
warlockOE
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Tartar1600
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lobster1602
pilcher1602
windfucker?1602
stinker1607
hog rubber1611
shad1612
splay-foot1612
tim1612
whit1612
verdugo1616
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toad's-guts1634
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b1851
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molie1871
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schweinhund1871
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cocksucker1894
wart1896
so-and-so1897
swine-hound1899
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S.O.B.1918
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mong1926
mucker1929
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zombie1936
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mugger1945
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hooer1952
morpion1954
mother1955
mother-raper1959
louser1960
effer1961
salaud1962
gunk1964
scunge1967
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 154 I xal prune that paddok, and prevyn hym as a pad.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 31 Certane padokis, filthy verming,..of the quhilk sort are the Pelagianis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. i. 9 Padock calls anon: faire is foule, and foule is faire.
1820 J. Galt Legatees vii Your [sic] a spiteful puddock.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv. 174 But there was grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock's heart of him.
1924 Scots Mag. Aug. 343 Upsettin' podduck wi' a' his new-fangled antics!
1990 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Aug. Ye brosie-headit puddock! Ye've poud a stick tae brak yer ain back.
2. Scottish. A wooden, usually triangular, sledge for transporting heavy goods.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of goods
sleadc1374
draya1387
sled1388
slipe1488
slid1513
drag1576
sledge1684
skid1712
paddock1738
sleigh1748
train1783
bobsled1796
bobsleigh1841
bob1856
stone-boat1859
travois1873
slider1888
bobs1910
1738 in Life & Labour Aberdeenshire Estate (1946) 65 I to give 16 yoaking of my own oxen & puddock & two men to attend ym to bring in the found bigg stones.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Paddock,..a machine shaped like a frog, for carrying large stones.
1887 J. Bulloch Pynours vi The slip, sled, or paddock came into use. It was a sort of strong wooden cradle.
1957 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 4 Oct. The ‘Puddock’, usually a very crude affair, home made from the stout forked limbs of a tree and some cross sticks, was used as a sledge on which ‘muckle stenes’ dug from the cultivated land were dragged by horses to the dykeside or a convenient dump.
Compounds
C1. † paddock-brood n. Obsolete
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a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) i. ii. 424 Heer's a Spawne or two of the same Paddock-Brood.
C2. † paddockcheese n. Obsolete = paddock-stool n.† paddock-stone n. Obsolete = toadstone n.1
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > fungus, mushroom, or toadstool
froga1398
fungea1398
toadstool1398
paddock-stoola1400
padstoola1400
toad's hatc1440
paddockcheesea1500
campernoyle1527
fungus1527
frogstool1535
bruche1562
fungo1562
champignon1578
toadstool1607
toad's bread1624
canker1640
fung1665
fungoid1734
agaric1777
pixie stool1787
fungillus1794
toad's capa1825
fungal1836
hysterophyte1849
macrofungus1946
a1500 MS Harl. 1002 f. 144v Hic boletus, a padokchese.
paddock-face n. [ Sc. National Dict. s.v. Puddock n. records the word as still in use in north-eastern Scotland in 1966] a face resembling that of a frog or toad.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun]
muskin1530
vizard1568
monkey-face?1589
chitty-face1601
angel face1605
smock-face1605
fish-facea1625
platter face1631
ammunition face1649
horn-facea1668
baby facea1684
crab face1706
hatchet face1707
splatter-face1707
paddock-face1724
pudding face1748
dough face1755
Madonna face1790
company face1798
moon-face1822
pug-facea1845
puss1844
frog-face1872
bun-face1913
bitch face1969
1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. xxi Batavius, with his paddock-face.
paddock-hair n. the soft hair or down on a newborn baby or bird.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > down or down-feather > on unfledged bird
paddock-hair1808
nest plumage1854
neossoptile1893
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > down > of fetus or baby
paddock-hair1808
lanugo1871
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Paddock-hair, the down that covers unfledged birds; also, that kind of down which is on the heads of children born without hair.
1827 W. Taylor Poems 67 (E.D.D.) I foun' sax bare wee things Wi' paddock hair upon their wings.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. vi. 35 For nearly thirteen years I had sat on my hunkers in the puddock hair under the wing of a kind parent.
1930 in Sc. National Dict. at Puddock [Argyllshire] Ach, the puddock-hair's no aff him yet.
paddock redd n. [ < paddock n.1 + redd n.2] the spawn of a frog or toad.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > member of > spawn
paddock rud1508
todder1604
paddock redd1721
paddock-spewa1903
1721 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 114 A shot starn..found neist day on hillock side, Na better seems nor paddock ride.
1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 40 Rake the gotts frae paddock ride To muck the lan'.
1977 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. II. 99 Frogs' eggs or spawn, [Perthshire, Fife, Lanarkshire] puddock redd,..[Ayrshire] puddock rid, puddock ride,..[Kirkcudbrightshire] puddock red, puddock rid.
paddock rud n. [ < paddock n.1 + rud n.3] = paddock redd n.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > member of > spawn
paddock rud1508
todder1604
paddock redd1721
paddock-spewa1903
1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 And thou come, fule, in Marche or Februere, Thare till a pule and drank the padok rod.
1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 82 Auld Grizzy the witch, as some fwok say, Meks paddock-rud ointment for sair een.
1977 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. II. 99 Frogs' eggs or spawn, [Lanarkshire] paddock rod,..[Dumfriesshire] paddock roid, puddock roid,..[Kirkcudbrightshire] paddock rud.
paddock-spew n. = paddock redd n.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > member of > spawn
paddock rud1508
todder1604
paddock redd1721
paddock-spewa1903
a1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 405/2 Puddock-spue is fu' o' een And every ee's a puddock.
paddock's spindle n. [ Sc. National Dict. s.v. Puddock n. records the word as still in use in Ayrshire in 1966] Scottish rare either of two orchids, the early purple orchid, Orchis mascula, and the spotted orchid, Dactylorhiza maculata.
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1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 365 Paddock's Spindle, Orchis mascula, L.—Perthsh.
1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 424 Green-winged Orchid... Local names..puddock's spindles (i.e. kite's legs), Perth.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > stones associated with animals > [noun] > toad-stone
crapauteea1440
crapaudc1440
paddock-stone1488
grapoud?a1500
crapaudine1558
toadstone1558
crawpock1584
1488 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 10 Item a ring with a paddokstane, with a charnale.
1700 E. Lhuyd Let. 12 Mar. in H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata (1723) ii. 338 Besides the Snake-stones..the Highlanders have their Snail-Stones, Paddoc-Stones..to all which they attribute their several Virtues.
Derivatives
ˈpaddocky adj. abounding with frogs (in quot. 1997 used as a name).
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [adjective] > of or relating to frog > having or abounding in frogs
froggy1611
paddocky1828
1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 284 Over all the water-cressy and puddocky ditches.
1997 Guardian 20 July 32 The area [in Edinburgh] was called ‘Puddocky’, being considered suitable only for frogs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
paddockn.2
/ˈpadək/, U.S. /ˈpædək/ 1.
a.
(a) A small field or enclosure, usually adjoining a house or farm building; esp. a piece of pasture in which horses or other animals are turned out to grass.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > enclosed pasture
ham901
green yard1418
pasture field1464
ward1473
butt1542
paddock1547
septuma1552
staff1786
camp1877
night paddock1922
run-off1933
1547 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1852) V. 312 In the Boghall that draws in plough and paddok, xiij oxin.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 82 A fierce Bull, which..they had let out of the Paddock.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 274 (Gloss.) A Puddock, or Purrock, A small Enclosure.
1729 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1892) IX. 107 The paddock or parrock called Butt-paddock.
1759 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 471 A rude multitude quickly ran together, to a paddock adjoining to the town.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. vii. 126 Their father..was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock . View more context for this quotation
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. ii. 69 There was only the extent of a wide paddock and a lawn between the hall-door and that grand old gateway.
1911 Daily News 1 May 6 May is the month..when the paddock is alive with frolicsome little pigs.
a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. xxiv. 192 You remind me of a two-year-old, Dinny—one of those whipcordy chestnuts that kick up their heels in the paddock.
2000 Elle Sept. 395 Still, it's dusk, the horses are drowsing in the paddock and the sun is setting behind the mountains.
(b) Any of several such enclosures forming the grounds of a stud farm.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > horse-breeding > stud farm or enclosure
studOE
stud foldOE
harasa1300
studdery1582
stud farm1795
stud house1813
paddock1856
1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock iii. 62 The strength of the pasturage and the beautiful combination of hill and dale make these paddocks a perfect Paradise for blood-mares and foals.
1878 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 666/2 We next came to the stud, with its barns and paddocks, and cozy residence.
1894 G. Armatage Horse viii. 115 The colt may be mounted in the paddock.
1978 O. White Silent Reach v. 54 Scrubber bulls have been turned into stud paddocks.
b. Australian and New Zealand. A piece of enclosed land of any size; spec. a vast tract of rural land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field
tye832
hopea1000
fieldOE
field landOE
glebe1387
parka1393
closec1440
outset1506
intake1523
rout1598
fielden1610
town park1701
paddock1808
savannah1882
1808 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1916) 1st Ser. VI. 370 A six railed Fence forming different Paddocks or enclosures for stock.
1832 J. Bischoff Sketch Hist. Van Diemen's Land vi. 148 There is one paddock of 100 acres, fenced on four sides.
1891 Mrs. P. Martin Coo-ee 121 The fields, or paddocks, as they call them here [i.e. in Australia], were pretty.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling i. 7 The Western Division is inhabited—indeed it is all fenced into paddocks.
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 7 In the forty-five-thousand-acre paddock at the bottom of the rocky hill country the rains have scoured great washouts in the slopes.
1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds 258 Great fields of cane (one couldn't call them paddocks, since they were small enough to encompass with the eyes).
c. figurative.
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1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. vi. 190 Estates of romance, compared with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.
1875 E. Dowden Shakespere: his Mind & Art 22 Keble was born and bred in the Anglican paddock.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. ii. 25 A country where literature is confined to its little paddock, without influence on the larger field..of the social world.
1960 Northern Territory News (Darwin) 5 Feb. 18/3 Merv Hunt must have been in a very good paddock. He put on three stone while on holidays in the City of Churches.
1988 M. Bishop Unicorn Mountain (1989) i. 21 An entire paddock of mythological beasties made of either pewter or glass.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > in a garden or pleasure-ground
alleyc1405
alurea1450
walk1533
lead1590
paddock1678
walkway1792
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Paddock,..a walk or division in a Park.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Paddock or Paddock-course, a place in a Park pal'd in very narrow on both sides, for Hounds or Gray~hounds to run Matches.
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i A paddock in a park, septum, circus venatorius.
3. Horse Racing. A turf enclosure near a racecourse where horses and jockeys assemble before a race. Hence also in Motor Racing: an enclosure where cars are prepared before a race.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun] > paddock
saddling paddock1838
paddock1839
birdcage1865
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > enclosure for cars to gather before or after race
parc fermé1958
paddock2001
1839 J. Adolphus Mem. J. Bannister II. 20 My racer..quitted the course to turn into the green paddock.
1881 Daily News 2 June 5 The genuine public..drove thoughtlessly past the paddock..and disposed itself either in the cords near the winning-post or on the slope of the hill.
1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms xx. 138 We walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.
1975 M. Ayers & G. Newbon Under Starter's Oders iv. 48 The two main areas of action at a racecourse are the parade ring, or paddock, and the track itself.
2001 Times 26 Feb. (Sports section) 14/3 We were in Formula Three back then and we used to watch the people in the Formula One paddock as if they were in their cages.
4. Mining (chiefly Australian and New Zealand).
a. An open excavation in a superficial deposit.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine
work1474
firework1606
stemple1653
stool1653
bink1675
engine pit1687
swamp1691
feeder1702
wall1728
bag1742
sill1747
stope1747
rose cistern1778
striking-house1824
plat1828
stemplar1828
screen chamber1829
offtake1835
footwall1837
triple pit1839
stamp1849
paddock1852
working floor1858
pit house1866
ground-sluice1869
screen tower1871
planilla1877
undercurrent1877
mill1878
blanket-sluice1881
stringing-deal1881
wagon-breast1881
brushing-bed1883
poppet-leg1890
slippet1898
stable1906
overcut1940
society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > surface works
opencast?a1650
openwork1665
pit-heap1769
grass work1828
paddock1852
1852 T. S. Grace Rep. Turanga District in Pioneer Missionary among Maoris (1920) i. 20 One large paddock of 3 acres was dug in two weeks by 12 of them with the help of 3 boys.
1862 Otago: Goldfields & Resources 34 Sod walls..are largely used in making dams and ‘paddocks’.
1876 W. J. J. Spry Cruise Her Majesty's Ship ‘Challenger’ vi. 117 Next, the lime tufa was bored into, and now large ‘paddocks’ are sunk to a depth of over twenty feet in the decomposed igneous rock.
1944 M. J. O'Reilly Bowyangs & Boomerangs 9 The procedure is to strip a paddock of the overburden, until one comes to the wash-dirt. A paddock may be any size, say from six feet square upwards.
1980 R. Shears Gold 58 If you do want to find..areas of gold you will have to do a bit of farming—digging portions of river bed in designated sections. These divisions..are known as ‘paddocks’.
b. A storage area for ore, wash-dirt, etc.
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1858 Colonial Mining Jrnl. Sept. 3/2 The new shaft is being sunk..and a close substantially constructed paddock has been erected.
1869 R. B. Smyth Gloss. Mining Terms Paddock,..a place built near the mouth of a shaft where quartz or washdirt is stored.
1915 J. P. Bourk Off Bluebush 66 Hello, on top! Hello! Ease off and have a blow! We've a crushin' in the paddock, and there's more below!
1974 B. Myatt Dict. Austral. Gemstones 32 Old alluvial workings in which all the unwanted material ended on the ‘paddock’.
Compounds
C1.
paddock fence n.
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1808 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1916) 1st Ser. VI. 363 A Paddock Fence with Posts and Railing.
1931 Science 13 Mar. 14/2 Recently all the white-tail deer leaped over their paddock fence and roamed the country for several days.
2002 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 14 Dec. The garden has been renovated..a small pond and waterfall and new paddock fences and gates have been added.
paddock gate n.
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1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 109 They were within a hundred yards of the paddock gate.
1855 Harper's Mag. Jan. 217/2 He gravely expressed his pain at having caught her in the act of swinging upon the paddock-gate with her young brothers.
1998 M. Bail Eucalyptus (1999) i. 7 He was the one responsible for the infuriating system of paddock gates.
C2.
paddock course n. Horse Racing now historical a racecourse (cf. sense 2).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race
wild-goose race1594
wild goose chase1597
bell-course1607
Palio1673
stake1696
paddock course1705
handicap1751
by-match1759
pony race1765
give and take plate1769
sweepstake1773
steeplechase1793
mile-heat1802
steeple race1809
welter1820
trotting-race1822
scurry1824
walkover1829
steeple hunt1831
set-to1840
sky race1840
flat race1848
trot1856
grind1857
feeler1858
nursery1860
waiting race1868
horse-trot1882
selling plate1888
flying milea1893
chase1894
flying handicap1894
prep1894
selling race1898
point-to-point1902
seller1922
shoo-in1928
daily double1930
bumper1946
selling chase1965
tiercé1981
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica (ed. 2) 246 Horses run without Riders upon 'em, something after the manner of a Paddock-Course.
1987 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 29 Mar. 19 John Musty, has recently reported in The Antiquaries Journal his discovery at Clarendon, Wiltshire, what appears to have been a..paddock course, complete with a substantial grandstand.
paddock critic n. Horse Racing a person who judges horses by their appearance in the paddock before a race.
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1897 Daily News 21 June 10/6 His brilliant form..made a great impression upon the paddock critics.
1992 G. Hammond Horse Racing 152 A paddock critic, or paddock judge, is one who makes his estimate of a horse's well-being, or otherwise, from its appearance and behaviour in the paddock before a race.
paddock sheet n. Horse Riding a blanket put over a horse in the paddock.
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1963 E. H. Edwards Saddlery xxi. 160 The everyday exercise sheets..are the same shape as a paddock sheet, but usually a few inches larger.
2000 Country Illustr. Apr. 134/1 (advt.) Equine Clothing Company... Co-ordinating summer sheets, coolers, paddock sheets and exercise sheets.
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paddockv.
/ˈpadək/, U.S. /ˈpædək/, Australian English /ˈpædək/, New Zealand English /ˈpɛdək/ Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
1.
a. transitive. To shut up (livestock) in a paddock or similar enclosure; (hence) to provide with pasturage. Frequently in passive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > drive or put into enclosure
parc1300
foldc1440
house1578
pinfold1605
pen1607
enfold?1611
impen?1623
to get in1698
weara1724
yard1758
to run in1837
corral1847
paddock1847
kraal1865
1847 Bell's Life in Sydney 11 Dec. 3/1 The horses were paddocked for the night.
1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. II. xii. 214 The sheep are all ‘paddocked’,—that is, kept in by fences,—so that shepherding is unnecessary.
1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 433/1 Droves of oxen, sheep, and swine were paddocked close by.
1915 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Jan. 22/4 The usually dry northern parts of S. Aus. are offering to paddock the suffering stock from the usually moist southern region.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. v. 111 He paddocked the sheep one night at the Rangitata Bridge.
2000 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 1 Aug. 22 Down by Wyong Creek where he has leased some land and where about 20 horses are stabled and paddocked.
b. transitive. To fence in or enclose (land).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > enclose
several1482
enclose1503
paddock1873
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > lay out land [verb (transitive)] > enclose land > enclose land
enclose1503
to take in1523
impasture1649
paddock1873
1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. I. xx. 302 When a run is ‘paddocked’ shepherds are not required;—but boundary-riders are employed.
1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang v. 40 To paddock land, to put up fences.
1967 E. Huxley Their Shining Eldorado 247 Less than half the property is paddocked, and beyond the fences cattle live and breed free.
1982 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt.3: Far East Weekly Econ. Rep. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 2 June FE/W1187/A/2 2,800,000 mou are basic grazing lands and 45,000,000 sq.m. of the grazing lands are paddocked.
2. Mining.† b. transitive. To store (ore, wash-dirt, etc.) in a paddock (paddock n.2 4b). Obsolete.
a. transitive. To excavate wash-dirt from (a superficial deposit). Also intransitive. Cf. paddock n.2 4a.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > excavate washdirt in shallow ground
paddock1855
1855 G. H. Wathen Golden Colony 56 In Eagle-Hawke Gully parties were ‘paddocking’ the old workings... That is, marking out and working large areas of ground already once wrought.
1860 National Mag. 8 307/1 Those who have seen Chinamen at work ‘paddocking’ in the worn-out alluvial gold-diggings of Australia, can speak for their steady, untiring industry.
1906 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Feb. 15/2 We've sunk and we've driven and paddocked and gouged for scarcely a color a week.
1931 I. L. Idriess Prospecting for Gold ii. 11 To prove such ground after having located it with the dish, the one method is to ‘paddock’ it.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > store (ore, etc.) in paddock
paddock1871
1871 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 1 Apr. 399/4 There is about a foot of blue slate with small quartz leaders running through it which also carries gold, and which is being taken and paddocked.
1880 ‘Erro’ Squattermania 28 I looked over the heap they've got paddocked, and couldn't find a speck.
1899 N. Queensland Herald 8 Feb. 31 They have gathered and stacked surface stone till they have paddocked sufficient for a crushing in the mill yard.
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