单词 | house paddock |
释义 | > as lemmashouse paddock house paddock n. Australian and New Zealand an enclosure, typically for horses, adjacent to the house on a rural property. ΚΠ 1889 Zealandia 1 341 The cattle on the hills were beginning to suffer from drought, and were driven down to the house paddocks to be near the water. 1894 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Oct. 23/2 The house-paddock slip-rail edges a side-slope leading down to ‘the crossing’. 1986 B. Richards Off Sheep's Back 66 We unharnessed the horses and turned them loose in the ‘house paddock’. 2010 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 23 Jan. 37 The land, divided into four paddocks including a house paddock, is gently undulating. < as lemmas |
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