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noun
dialect British, Midlands English, USRotten or decayed wood; a piece of rotten wood; a rotten tree or log. Also formerly more fully "†daddock wood".
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Miles Smith (d. 1624), bishop of Gloucester. From a first element of unknown origin + -ock.
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