Meaning of paddockful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as a paddock (field of grassland) will hold.

Examples

“1872, anonymous, “Jingling Geordie” in All the Year Round, Christmas 1872, p. 19, “I hear⟳ this mare of yours is a clipper; but I shall see⟳ what metal she has in her before an hour’s over.” “I tell⟳ you the truth, man. It is hard to part with her. My girl, Lizzie, is fond of her, and she is fond of Lizzie, and I allow⟳ I’d sooner you’d take⟳ all the paddockful than her.””

“[…] that fellow (the chief), his two brothers, and about a paddockful of young Samoan bucks haven’t slept at all for this two weeks.”

“I went down at sunrise and forked out their ensilage to a paddockful of sturdy young Angus bulls I am proud to think⟳ I bred.”

“Every year he cultivates several paddocksful of swedes, which in mid to late winter are uprooted; the sheep are then allowed to forage.”

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