A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1547-1575
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Paddok, n.2 [e.m.E. (1622) and mod. Eng.; also (once, 1824) in the later dial. of Galloway; appar. altered f. e.m.E. parrocke (north., 1530), north. ME. parroke (a 1450), an enclosed piece of ground, OE. pearroc a fence enclosing a piece of ground.] A small enclosed field. (Our examples are of south Sc. provenance, but the second may be merely a further instance of Pad(d)ok n.1 1 c). —1547 Misc. Spald. C. V. 312.
In the Boghall that draws in plough and paddok, xiij oxin 1575 Protocol Book of T. Lindsay 88 b.
His half of the paddok cruik of land pertening to him
