saddling paddock
noun
1A paddock in which horses are prepared for a race.
2 Australian slang (a nickname for) a bar in the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, frequented by prostitutes in the 19th cent.; (hence) any place of assignation likened to this.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Times.
- midnight feast
- midnight hour
- midnight lamp
- midnightly
- midnight Mass
- midnight matinée
- midnight movie
- midnight oil
- midnight prayer
- midnight requisition
- midnight requisitioning
- midnight sun
- midnight watch
- midnight watching
- midnoon
- mid-oceanic
- mid-ocean ridge
- mid-off
- mid-on
- mid-ordinate
- Midori
- mid-Pacific
- mid-parent
- mid-parental
- mid-part