Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dead dog thrown into a ditch.

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Examples

  • 'Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water - [newt]; that in the fury of his heart, when the _foul fiend rages_, swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; _who is whipped_ from

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

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