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Paddock vs Croft - What's the difference?

paddock | croft |

As a noun paddock

is (archaic except in dialects) a frog or toad or paddock can be a small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.

As a verb paddock

is to provide with a paddock to keep in, or place in, a paddock.

As a proper noun croft is

, from the common noun croft, and from places named croft.

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 ----

    croft

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fenced piece of land, especially in Scotland, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production and usually with a crofter's dwelling thereon.
  • * 1819 , Keats, :
    • Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
    The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft ;
  • (archaic) A carafe.

    • Derived terms

    * crofter * crofting * undercroft