Paddock vs Farm - What's the difference?
paddock | farm |
(archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.
* Wycliffe
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
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(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.
To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
English words suffixed with -ock
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(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal
(obsolete) A banquet; feast
(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax
* 1642 , tr. J. Perkins, Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329 :
* 1700 , J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814 :
* 1767 , W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320 :
(historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
* 1876 , E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439 :
(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
* 1885 , Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580:
The body of farmers of public revenues.
* 1786 , T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568 :
The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease
* a1599 , Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58 :
* 1647 , N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75 :
* 1818 , W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68 :
A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation
A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock
(usually, in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
(computing) A group of coordinated servers
To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
To devote (land) to farming.
To grow (a particular crop).
To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
* Burke
(obsolete) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To take at a certain rent or rate.
To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
* 2004', "Doug Freyburger", ''Pudding '''Farming Requires Care'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.nethack )
* 2010 , Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers (page 130)
As nouns the difference between paddock and farm
is that paddock is (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad while farm is food; provisions; a meal.As verbs the difference between paddock and farm
is that paddock is to provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock while farm is to work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.paddock
English
(wikipedia paddock)Etymology 1
From (etyl) paddok, equivalent to .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Soothly if thou wilt not deliver, lo! I shall smite all thy terms with paddocks . (Exodus 8:2)
- The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
- Paddock calls (Macbeth 1.1.10)
Derived terms
* paddock pipe * paddock stone * paddock stoolEtymology 2
Alteration of (etyl) parrok, . Related to (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
Derived terms
* heifer paddock * long paddockVerb
(en verb)farm
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (historical) * (l) (obsolete) (wikipedia farm)Noun
(en noun)- If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.
- All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm , without any Increase.
- The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.
- He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.
- The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.
- They despair of a suppression of the Farm .
- It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.
- Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes' or ' Farmes , which word signifieth Victuals.
- The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.
- fuel farm'''''; ''wind '''farm'''''; ''antenna '''farm
- a render farm'''''; ''a server '''farm
Verb
(en verb)- to farm the taxes
- to farm their subjects and their duties toward these
- We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
- When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). Since black puddings are formidible(SIC) monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.
- The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements
