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Is paddock a Scrabble word?

Yes, paddock is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 17 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of paddock?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.Examples: "Upon this information, they instantly passed through the hall once more, and ran across the lawn after their father, who was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock."; "A jargonell pear tree at one end of the cottage, a rivulet, and flower-plot of a rood in extent, in front, and a kitchen-garden behind; a paddock for a cow, and a small field, cultivated with several crops of grain rather for the benefit of the cottager than for sale, announced the warm and cordial comforts which Old England, even at her most northern extremity, extends to her meanest inhabitants."; "[H]e has delineated estates of romance, from which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks."alsofiguratively

2. (by extension)Examples: "We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock. […] The paddock was fairly well filled with people and they were walking the horses around in a ring under the trees behind the grand stand."; "You remind me of a two-year-old, Dinny—one of those whipcordy chestnuts that kick up their heels in the paddock, get left at the post, and come in first after all."broadly

3. (by extension)broadly

4. (by extension)broadlyslang

5. (by extension)AustraliaNew-Zealandbroadly

6. (by extension)AustraliaNew-Zealandbroadly

verb (English)

1. (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.Examples: "In the district of which I am speaking the sheep are all "paddocked," —that is to say, kept in by fences—so that shepherding is unnecessary."AustraliaNew-Zealandtransitive

2. (mining)AustraliaNew-Zealandalsointransitivetransitive

3. (mining)AustraliaNew-Zealandobsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Examples: "Cold as a paddock."; "Also the Lord seide to Moises, Entre thou to Farao, and thou schalt seie to hym, The Lord seith these thingis, Delyuere thou my puple, that it make sacrifice to me; sotheli if thou nylt delyuere, lo! Y schal smyte alle thi termys with paddoks; and the flood schal buyle out paddokis, […]"; "It is apparent that there be three kinds of Frogs of the earth, the firſt is the little greene Frog: the ſecond is this Padocke, hauing a crooke back, called in Latine Rubeta Gibboſa, and the third is the Toade, commonly called Rubotax, Bufo. […] As ſoone as theſe Paddocks come once into the ayre, out of their cloſe places of generation and habitation, they ſvvell and ſo die."AustraliaNew-ZealandNorthern-EnglandNorthern-IrelandScotlandtransitive

2. (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Examples: "Where I was wont to ſeeke the honey Bee, / Working her formall rowmes in Wexen frame: / The grieſlie Todeſtoole growne there mought I ſe / And loathed Paddocks lording on the ſame."; "Padock calls anon: faire is foule, and foule is faire, / Houer through the fogge and filthie ayre."; "[F]rom the hall wherein the mourners died / A grey wolf glared, and o'er his head the bat / Hung, and the paddock on the hearth-stone sat."AustraliaNew-ZealandNorthern-EnglandNorthern-IrelandScotlandtransitive

3. (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland)Examples: "[T]here was grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock’s heart of him."Synonyms: assbucket, asshat, asshole, assmonkey, assmouth, assmunch, assmuncher, assbreathAustraliaNew-ZealandNorthern-EnglandNorthern-IrelandScotlandderogatorytransitive

4. (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.AustraliaNew-ZealandScotlandtransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "paddock"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "paddock"?

Scrabble
17 points
P3
A1
D2
D2
O1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
19 points
P4
A1
D2
D2
O1
C4
K5

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