paddock

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A fenced area, usually near a stable, used chiefly for grazing horses.
2. n. Sports An enclosure at a racetrack where the horses are assembled, saddled, and paraded before each race.
3. n. Sports An area of an automobile racetrack where cars are prepared before a race.
4. n. Australian A piece of fenced-in land.
5. v. To confine in a paddock.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A toad or frog.
2. n. The tadpole-fish.
3. n. A small field or inclosure; especially, a small inclosure under pasture immediately adjoining a stable; a small turfed inclosure in which animals, especially horses, are kept.
4. To confine or inclose in or as in a paddock.
5. n. Applied depreciatively to a person: in the play of “Macbeth,” an evil spirit or a familar.
6. n. A piece of land of any size, inclosed or not, used for cultivation.
7. n. In mining: A store-yard near a mine-shaft for ore or wash-dirt.
8. n. An open excavation in a superficial deposit.
9. To make into a paddock, as a run for sheep.
10. In mining, to place or store (ore) in a paddock; dig or form a paddock in.

Wiktionary

1. n. A frog or toad.
2. n. A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
3. n. An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
4. n. Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
5. n. motor racing An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
6. v. To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) A toad or frog.
2. n. obsolete A small inclosure or park for sporting.
3. n. A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
4. n. An enclosure used for saddling and mounting horses prior to a race.

WordNet 3.0

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