Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dead dog thrown into a ditch.
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Examples
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'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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