EGAVE

paddock

About 0.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
  2. noun An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race. An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races. A field on which a game is played; a playing 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 washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
  3. noun An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
  4. noun An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
  5. noun A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
  8. verb 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.

Similar words

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Word family

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