paddock
noun
a small, usually enclosed field near a stable or barn for pasturing or exercising animals.
paddocked
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past participleof paddock.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof paddock.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
paddocknouna small, usually enclosed field near a stable or barn for pasturing or exercising animals.
Example Sentences
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We had a beautiful, still morning for our ride, and reached the station—a shed standing out on the plain—in time to see our horses safely paddocked before the train started for Christchurch.
From Station Life in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
Wild and shy, as paddocked merinos always are, these had withdrawn to the quietest places they could find, and were there making the best of a bad job.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
I've got the car paddocked down near the reserve.
From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh
A sound like "Goood!" came from the paddocked bull.
From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert
Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
