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Daddock means (UK, dialect) The rotten body of a tree..
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/ˈdædək/ · noun
(UK, dialect) The rotten body of a tree..
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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Daddock means (UK, dialect) The rotten body of a tree..
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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.
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