Usually means: Enclosing animals in a small area.
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  1. paddocking: Collins English Dictionary
  2. paddocking: Wiktionary
  3. paddocking: Dictionary.com
  4. paddocking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. paddocking: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See paddock as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Paddock)

noun:  (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
noun:  (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
noun:  (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
noun:  (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
verb:  (often passive voice) To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture.
verb:  To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
verb:  (mining)
verb:  (also intransitive) To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
verb:  (obsolete) To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock (noun sense 2.5).
noun:  (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
noun:  A frog.
noun:  A toad.
noun:  (derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
noun:  (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
noun:  A surname.
▸ Also see paddock


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