paddock

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A fenced area, usually near a stable, used chiefly for grazing horses.
• noun An enclosure at a racetrack where the horses are assembled, saddled, and paraded before each race.
• noun An area of an automobile racetrack where cars are prepared before a race.
• noun Australian A piece of fenced-in land.
• transitive verb To confine in a paddock.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Applied depreciatively to a person: in the play of “Macbeth,” an evil spirit or a familar.
• noun A piece of land of any size, inclosed or not, used for cultivation.
• noun In mining: A store-yard near a mine-shaft for ore or wash-dirt.
• noun An open excavation in a superficial deposit.
• To confine or inclose in or as in a paddock.
• noun A toad or frog.
• noun The tadpole-fish.
• noun A small field or inclosure; especially, a small inclosure under pasture immediately adjoining a stable; a small turfed inclosure in which animals, especially horses, are kept.
• To make into a paddock, as a run for sheep.
• In mining, to place or store (ore) in a paddock; dig or form a paddock in.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) A toad or frog.
• noun (Bot.) a hollow-stemmed plant of the genus Equisetum, especially Equisetum limosum and the fruiting stems of Equisetum arvense; -- called also padow pipe and toad pipe. See Equisetum.
• noun See Toadstone.
• noun (Bot.) a toadstool.
• noun obsolete A small inclosure or park for sporting.
• noun A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
• noun An enclosure used for saddling and mounting horses prior to a race.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A frog or toad.
• noun A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
• noun An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
• noun Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
• noun motor racing An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
• verb To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race