paddock 1
/pad"euhk/ , n.
1. a small, usually enclosed field near a stable or barn for pasturing or exercising animals.
2. the enclosure in which horses are saddled and mounted before a race.
3. Australian. any enclosed field or pasture.
v.t.
4. to confine or enclose in or as in a paddock.
[ 1540-50; var. of ME parrok, with r heard as flapped d; OE pearroc enclosure, orig. fence. See PARK ]
paddock 2
/pad"euhk/ , n.
Archaic. a frog or toad.
[ 1350-1400; ME paddok ( e ), deriv. of early ME pad toad (cf. E dial. pad frog); akin to D, LG pad, ON padda; see -OCK ]