holding paddock

1. 1.

   a pen where livestock is temporarily confined

   Synonymsholding penholding yard

   Broaderpen

Questions about holding paddock

What does holding paddock mean?

holding paddock means "a pen where livestock is temporarily confined".

What is another word for holding paddock?

Close synonyms include holding pen, holding yard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is holding paddock a common word?

holding paddock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.