"The paddocks are so arranged that hills may afford shelter, and plains or light-timbered flats an escape from the enormous flies and other persecuting enemies."
1892. `Scribner's Magazine,' Feb., p. 141:
"`Paddocks,' as the various fields are called (some of these `paddocks' contain 12,000 acres)."
(2) An excavation made for procuring wash-dirt in shallow ground. A place built near the mouth of a shaft where quartz or wash-dirt is stored. (Brough Smyth, `Glossary of Mining Terms,' 1869.)
1895. `Otago Witness,' Nov. 21, p. 22, col. 5:
"A paddock was opened at the top of the beach, but rock-bottom was found."
<hw>Paddock</hw>, v. to divide into paddocks.
1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' c. xx. p. 302:
"When a run is paddocked shepherds are not required; but boundary riders are required."
<hw>Paddy Lucerne</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Queensland Hemp</i>. See under <i>Hemp</i>.