daddock

plural daddocks

1. UKdialectalThe rotten body of a tree.

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

   1890, Emma Rood Tuttle, From Soul to Soul, page 198

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

   1866, Isaac B. Rich, Gazelle: A True Tale of the Great Rebellion, and Other Poems, page 137

   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

   1873, London Society

   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.

   1892, Hudson Tuttle, The Convent of the Sacred Heart, page 4

   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.

   1898, Gustav Pearlson, Twelve Centuries of Jewish Persecution, page 234