paddock

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A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
(RQ:Scott Rob Roy)
(RQ:Emerson Essays)
(RQ:Meredith Tragic Comedians)
(RQ:Braddon Wyllard's Weird)
(RQ:Greene Brighton Rock)
(RQ:Orwell Animal Farm)
An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
(RQ:Hemingway Farewell to Arms) The paddock was fairly well filled with people and they were walking the horses around in a ring under the trees behind the grand stand.
(RQ:Galsworthy Maid in Waiting)
An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and on|worked on before and between races.
A field on which a game is played; a field.
A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
A place in a superficial deposit where ore or (l) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock ''(noun sense 1 or 2.4)''; hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture.
(RQ:Trollope Australia)
To enclose or in (land) to form a paddock.
To excavate (l) from (a superficial deposit).
To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock ''(noun sense 2.5)''.
A frog.

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(RQ:Wycliffe Bible)|translation=Also the Lord said to (w), enter thou to Pharaoh, and thou shalt say to him, The Lord saith these things, Deliver thou my people, that it make sacrifice to me; soothly truly if thou nilt not deliver, lo! I shall smite all thy terms lands with paddocks; and the flood shall boil out paddocks;(nb..)|brackets=on|termlang=en
(RQ:Topsell Serpents) or Crooked Backe Frogge|pages=186–187|pageref=186|passage=It is apparent that there be three kinds of Frogs of the earth, the firſt is the little greene Frog: the ſecond is this Padocke, hauing a crooke back, called in Latine ''Rubeta Gibboſa'', and the third is the Toade, commonly called ''Rubotax'', ''Bufo''. (..) As ſoone as theſe Paddocks come once into the ayre, out of their cloſe places of generation and habitation, they ſvvell and ſo die.
(RQ:Dryden Georgics)
A toad.
(RQ:Spenser Shepheardes Calender)
(RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)
(RQ:Morris Earthly Paradise)
A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.

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(RQ:Stevenson Catriona)
A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
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pad (bed)
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