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Paddock vs Corral - What's the difference?

paddock | corral |

As nouns the difference between corral and paddock

is that corral is an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one while paddock is (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.

As verbs the difference between corral and paddock

is that corral is to capture or round up while paddock is to provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.

paddock

English

(wikipedia paddock)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) paddok, equivalent to .

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.
  • * Wycliffe
    • Soothly if thou wilt not deliver, lo! I shall smite all thy terms with paddocks . (Exodus 8:2)
  • * Spenser
    • The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Paddock calls (Macbeth 1.1.10)
    Derived terms
    * paddock pipe * paddock stone * paddock stool

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of (etyl) parrok, . Related to (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
  • *
    • the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
  • An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
  • Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
  • (motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
    • Derived terms
    * heifer paddock * long paddock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
    • English words suffixed with -ock ----

    corral

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
    • We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
  • An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
    • Please return the shopping carts to the corral .
  • A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
    • The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Commanche attacks.

    Synonyms

    * (livestock enclosure ): pen, stockade

    See also

    * crawl (Jamaican English ) * kraal (South African English )

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To capture or round up.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • To place inside of a corral.
  • To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.

    • Anagrams

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