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purrock

purrock is the alternative form of paddock.

purrock is the alternative form of parrock.

Meaning of paddock

Noun

paddock (plural paddocks)

  1. (also, figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
    • 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.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 126
  2. (broadly) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
    • 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.1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 20, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 138
  3. (broadly) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
  4. (broadly, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
  5. (Australia, New Zealand, broadly) 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.
  6. (Australia, New Zealand, broadly) 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.

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Meaning of parrock

Noun

parrock (plural parrocks)

  1. (England, Scotland, regional) An enclosed area of land; a small field or a paddock.
    • James Broadbent did not wonder what Isaac Hartley was doing in the sodden parrock that lay behind Elphaborough Hall in the fading light of day […].2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 231

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Forms of purrock

pluralpurrocks

Questions about purrock

What is purrock the alternative form of?
Purrock is the alternative form of paddock.

Words near purrock in the dictionary

  1. Purringtons
  2. purrito
  3. purritos
  4. purrless
  5. purrlike
  6. purrock
  7. purrocks
  8. purrs
  9. purrsuasive
  10. purry
  11. purry forn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purrock (page history and authors); paddock (page history and authors); parrock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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