English Dictionary

paddock

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpædək/

名詞

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(also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.

日本語の意味

（特に馬やその他の動物の運動や放牧に用いられる）小さな囲い地や牧草地

We walked along the fence to watch the foals playing in the paddock.

私たちは柵に沿って歩き、小さな放牧場で子馬たちが遊んでいるのを見た。

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

(horse racing) 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.

意味（3）

(motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.

意味（4）

(sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.

意味（5）

(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.

意味（6）

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) 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.

paddocks （ plural ）