PADDOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paddock mean? 

• PADDOCK (noun)
  The noun PADDOCK has 1 sense:

1. pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race

  Familiarity information: PADDOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PADDOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("paddock" is a kind of...):

pen (an enclosure for confining livestock)

 Context examples 

“You have a few sheep in the paddock,” he said.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But on the third morning after his arrival in Hertfordshire, she saw him, from her dressing-room window, enter the paddock and ride towards the house.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Judge’s sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge’s daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Judge’s feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge’s grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Some distance off, across a paddock, lay a long grey-tiled out-building.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon this information, they instantly passed through the hall once more, and ran across the lawn after their father, who was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The little Gardiners, attracted by the sight of a chaise, were standing on the steps of the house as they entered the paddock; and, when the carriage drove up to the door, the joyful surprise that lighted up their faces, and displayed itself over their whole bodies, in a variety of capers and frisks, was the first pleasing earnest of their welcome.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)