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Substantiivi

1. (also, figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
2. A frog.
3. (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
4. A toad.
5. (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
6. (derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
7. (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
8. (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
9. (Australia, New Zealand) 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.
10. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.

Verbi

1. (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.
2. To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
3. (also, intransitive) To excavate washdirt from (a superficial deposit).
4. (obsolete) To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock (noun sense 2.5).