doddered

Your Country Friends were told another Tale; / That from the ſloaping Mountain to the Vale, / And dodder’d Oak, and all the Banks along, / Menalcas ſav’d his Fortune with a Song.

1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 41, lines 11–14

This, once reſolv’d, the Peaſants were enjoin’d Sere Wood, and Firs, and dodder’d Oaks to find.

1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book III, page 82

Some wield the ſounding ax; the dodder’d oaks / Divide, obedient to the forceful ſtrokes.

1726, Homer, “Book XX”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume V, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 25, lines 200–201

And, where mighty rivers come rolling to the sea, we mark, through the long-retiring vistas which they open into the interior, the higher grounds of the country covered with coniferous trees, and see doddered trunks of vast size, like those of Granton and Craigleith, reclining under the banks in deep muddy reaches, with their decaying tops turned adown the current.

1849, Hugh Miller, “Evidence of the Silurian Molluscs.—Of the Fossil Flora. Ancient Tree.”, in Foot-Prints of the Creator: or, The Asterolepis of Stromness, London: Johnstone and Hunter, […], →OCLC, page 202

The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants.

1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Casket”, in Villette. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 206