Paddock

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.

   “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.”

2. isim An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.

   “We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock. […] 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.”

3. isim An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
4. isim A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
5. isim 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.
6. isim 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.
7. fiil 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.

   “In the district of which I am speaking the sheep are all "paddocked," —that is to say, kept in by fences—so that shepherding is unnecessary.”

8. fiil To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.

   “When a run is "paddocked," shepherds are not required;—but boundary-riders are employed, each of whom is supplied with two horses, and these men are responsible not only for the sheep but for the fences.”

9. fiil To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
10. fiil To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock (noun sense 2.5).
11. isim A frog.

    “Cold as a paddock.”

12. isim A toad.

    “Where I was wont to ſeeke the honey Bee, / Working her formall rowmes in Wexen frame: / The grieſlie Todeſtoole growne there mought I ſe / And loathed Paddocks lording on the ſame.”

13. isim A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.

    “[T]here was grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock’s heart of him.”

14. isim A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
15. özel isim An English surname.

    “But 64-year-old Stephen C. Paddock flew low under the radar. He avoided interaction with many of the people around him, and his manner was direct and brusque.”