Doddered
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Doddered is an adjective meaning Of a tree, usually an oak: having lost the top or branches, especially through age and decay.
Meaning
Of a tree, usually an oak: having lost the top or branches, especially through age and decay.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of dodder
Example Sentences
[…] / He passes now the doddered oak, / Ye heard the startled raven croak; […]
Some wield the ſounding ax; the dodder’d oaks / Divide, obedient to the forceful ſtrokes.
This, once reſolv’d, the Peaſants were enjoin’d Sere Wood, and Firs, and dodder’d Oaks to find.
The green glades in the autumnal woods were inviting, and sometimes they stood before the vast form of some doddered oak.
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