daddock

Definitions

The rotten body of a tree.

UK, dialectal

Examples

“We crushed the flowers to dust again, And leaped the daddock pile, And hunted, with a careless rein, The foe in savage style.”

“and you have⟳ not enough Of fairness left to tempt a truant hand To pluck you from the daddock in the clough, And give⟳ your spirit to the summer land⟳”

“The partridge drums upon the hill, a daddock old and battered, While, now and then, an oriole lights up a scarlet gleam.”

“Delicate sensitiveness will turn⟳ away in fear and disgust as some mouldering daddock is removed, and lizards, sloes, darting beetles, and plodding snails are dazed by the light⟳.”

“Christendom's favouring renegades was of the greatest service to the Hebrew race⟳, for it helped Judaism to despumate her ills and diseases; every tree has its daddock. The blackmailing Jewish apostates were the daddock of Israel.”

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