noun

• (also figuratively) 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."
• (by extension)
  "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."
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verb

• (often passive voice) 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."
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noun

• (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
  "Cold as a paddock."
• (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
  "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."
• (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
  "[T]here was grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock’s heart of him."
• (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.