Paddock vs Turnout - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between paddock and turnout is that paddock is (archaic except in dialects) a frog or toad or paddock can be a small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses while turnout is attendance; crowd. As a verb paddock is to provide with a paddock to keep in, or place in, a paddock.
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.
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- 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
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turnout English
Noun
( en noun)
attendance; crowd
- This restaurant had a pretty good turnout for a Wednesday night.
(US) a place to pull off a road
- When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass.
(rail transport, chiefly, US) a place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points
Synonyms
* (roadside area) lay-by
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