Definition of "paddy-field" [paddy-field]

• A rice-field; a field in which rice is grown. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The sun lingered for a while amongst the light tracery of the higher branches, as if in friendly reluctance to abandon the body stretched in the green paddy-field."
• "This one exception we found literally upside down with his head stuck in the mud of a paddy-field."
• "With great difficulty the dead and wounded were carried back under fire, and it was found that the enemy occupied a big trench encircling three sides of a paddy-field bordering on a wood."