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Paddock vs Pasture - What's the difference?

paddock | pasture |

As nouns the difference between pasture and paddock

is that pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding while paddock is (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.

As verbs the difference between pasture and paddock

is that pasture is to move animals into a pasture to graze 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 ----

    pasture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
  • Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2
    • He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .
  • * Shakespeare
    • So graze as you find pasture .
  • (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
    • Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

    Derived terms

    * pasture rose * pasture thistle

    Verb

  • To move animals into a to graze.
  • To graze.
  • To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
    • The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.

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