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Doddered   Listen
adjective
Doddered  adj.  Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Doddered" Quotes from Famous Books



... resolved, the peasants were enjoined Sere-wood, and firs, and doddered oaks to find. With sounding axes to the grove they go, Fell, split, and lay the fuel in a row; Vulcanian food: a bier is next prepared, On which the lifeless body should be reared, Covered with cloth of gold; on which was laid The corps of Arcite, in like robes arrayed. White gloves were on his ...
— Palamon and Arcite • John Dryden

... gentle declivity, which relieved the inhabitants of the nuisances that might otherwise have stagnated around it. At a little distance was the whole band of children, playing and building houses with peats around a huge doddered oak-tree, which was called Charlie's Bush, from some tradition respecting an old freebooter who had once inhabited the spot. Between the farm-house and the hill-pasture was a deep morass, termed in that country a slack—it ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott



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