paddle wheel (padlhwel)

1. A wheel (generally one of two placed at the sides of a 6. Common Paddle-wheel. a, shaft; b, d, riins; c, e, paddles; d, d, arms. steam-ve el) provided with boards or floats on its circumference, and driven by steam, for the prob. due in part to a ociation with pad1: see parrock.] A small field or inclosure; especially, a small inclosure under pasture immediately adjoining a stable; a small turfed inclosure in which animals, especially horses, are kept. Villas environed with parks, paddocks, [and] plantations. Evelyn. The prices of admi ion to the paddocks , the grand stand, and the various points of advantage throughout the grounds, are higher than on our racing tracks. T. C. Crawford , English Life, p. 15. paddock2 (pad'ok), v . t. [ paddock , n. Cf. parrock , v .] To confine or inclose in or as in a paddock. Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly-shaven vocabulary. Lowell , Books and Libraries. paddock-cheeset (pad'ok-chez), n. The asparagus. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.]