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dodderel
dodderel, -ril dial. [f. dod v.1: cf. doddered, also dotterel (in same sense).] (See quots.)1847–78 Halliwell, Dodderel, a pollard. Warw. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss., Dodderil, a pollard tree. 1891 Rutland Gloss. s.v., The boundary is by yon old dodderil oak. Oxford English Dictionary
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Knapwell
The name may have derived from "dodderel", a dialect word for a pollard. The trees succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1980s. wikipedia.org
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doddard
† ˈdoddard Obs. rare. [app. f. dod v.1 to poll (trees) + -ard; the formation being parallel to poll-ard: cf. doddle n., dodderel in same sense. But it may have been merely a modification of dottard, dotard (found earlier in same sense) with fanciful assimilation to dod v.1 and its derivatives: see d... Oxford English Dictionary
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