grass vs paddock

grass

noun
  • An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities. 

  • Asparagus; "sparrowgrass". 

  • Marijuana. 

  • Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference. 

  • The season of fresh grass; spring or summer. 

  • The surface of a mine. 

  • A lawn. 

  • Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses. 

  • Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display. 

  • Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. 

verb
  • To bring to the grass or ground; to land. 

  • To feed with grass. 

  • To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities. 

  • To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.). 

  • To cover with grass or with turf. 

  • To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. 

paddock

noun
  • A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person. 

  • An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race. 

  • A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals. 

  • A field on which a game is played; a playing field. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A toad. 

  • An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races. 

  • A frog. 

  • A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items. 

verb
  • To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock. 

  • To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit). 

  • 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. 

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