Paddock
The term paddock may refer to
the name for an enclosure where horses are kept in British English. in Australian and New Zealand English, the term can mean any field in the agricultural sense (as opposed to a playing field) the enclosed area at a race track where horses are paraded and mounted before a race, and unsaddled after a race. the area at a Greyhound racing track where Greyhounds are housed and inspected before a race an enclosure at a Motor racing track used by team support personnel and vehicles, and other officials and VIPs a toad mentioned by the witches in the first act of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Paddock is an archaic English word for "toad" a frog, as mentioned in the 1382 edition of the Wycliffe [middle] English Bible: Exodus 8:2-13 Paddock (war rooms), a two-level concrete citadel in Dollis Hill serving as war rooms for Winston Churchill during World War II
People
Algernon Paddock (1830-1897), American politician Charlie Paddock (1900-1943), American athlete and actor George A. Paddock (1885-1964), American politician John Paddock (born 1954), Canadian hockey coach Richard B. Paddock (1859-1901), American cavalry officer Tom Paddock (c. 1822-1863), British boxing champion
Places
Paddock, Huddersfield, suburb in England Paddock Township, Gage County, Nebraska, in the United States Paddock Township, Holt County, Nebraska, in the United States Paddock Wood, village in Kent, England
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