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Definition of Dodmans
1. dodman [n] - See also: dodman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodmans
Literary usage of Dodmans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Broad Norfolk: Being a Series of Articles and Letters Reprinted from the by Sydney [Cozens-Hardy, Eastern Daily Press (1893)
"... napping (or knapping} the dodmans. ... and what are dodmans ? " was his reply.
He recognised " knapping " from ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"... knapping the dodmans ' (the thrushes breaking the snail-shells) ; they listen
to the ' barley bird ' (nightingale) or the ' billy-wix ' (owl), ..."
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