paddock

potrero, cercado

Pequeño terreno de hierba, normalmente cercado, donde caballos u otros animales de granja comen o hacen ejercicio.

En inglés sencillo: A small grassy field, usually fenced, where horses or other farm animals eat or exercise.

• The pony is in the paddock.
• We watched the horses running around their paddock.
• She closed the paddock gate after feeding the mare.

Sinónimos: enclosure, field

Expresiones frecuentes: horse paddock, small paddock, in the paddock, paddock fence

potrero, pastizal

Terreno de hierba donde se mantiene ganado vacuno u ovino, especialmente en Australia y Nueva Zelanda.

En inglés sencillo: A grassy field, especially in Australia or New Zealand, where cattle or sheep are kept.

• The sheep filled the paddock.
• We moved the cattle into a larger paddock.
• The dry paddocks stretched for miles beyond the farmhouse.

Sinónimos: pasture, field

Expresiones frecuentes: sheep paddock, large paddock, back paddock, paddock gate

rana

Animal pequeño de piel lisa y patas traseras largas que salta y vive cerca del agua.

En inglés sencillo: A small animal with smooth skin and long back legs that jumps and lives near water.

• A paddock jumped into the pond.
• We heard paddocks calling beside the marsh.
• The old poem describes a green paddock on a stone.

Sinónimos: frog

Expresiones frecuentes: a green paddock, paddock in water

sapo

Animal pequeño parecido a la rana, de piel rugosa, que suele vivir en tierra.

En inglés sencillo: A small animal like a frog, with rough skin, that usually lives on land.

• A paddock hid under the stone.
• The witch kept a paddock beside her door.
• The tale mentions paddocks crawling through the damp garden.

Sinónimos: toad

Expresiones frecuentes: a brown paddock, paddock under something

meter en un potrero, llevar a pastar

Poner o mantener animales de granja en un terreno con hierba donde puedan comer.

En inglés sencillo: To put or keep farm animals in a grassy field where they can eat.

• We paddock the horses overnight.
• The farmer paddocked her cattle near the river.
• All the sheep were paddocked before the storm arrived.

Cómo se usa: paddock animals in something (They paddocked the horses in a field near the house.)

Sinónimos: pasture

Expresiones frecuentes: paddock the horses, paddock cattle, paddock the sheep

cercar, vallar

Rodear un terreno con una valla para poder mantener animales dentro.

En inglés sencillo: To put a fence around land so that animals can be kept there.

• They paddocked the land last spring.
• We plan to paddock another five acres.
• The farmer had paddocked the field with wire fencing.

Sinónimos: fence, enclose

Expresiones frecuentes: paddock the land, paddock a field

excavar tierra metalífera

Extraer tierra poco profunda con suficiente metal como para que resulte rentable separarlo mediante lavado.

En inglés sencillo: To dig out shallow earth containing enough metal to make washing it worthwhile.

• The miners paddocked the shallow deposit.
• They paddocked the ground before washing the gravel.
• This patch had already been paddocked by earlier gold miners.

Sinónimos: excavate

Expresiones frecuentes: paddock a deposit, paddock the ground