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plural dallops
(obsolete, East Anglia and Essex) A tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn. quotations
Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find, / leaue standing by dallops, till time ye doo bind
1573, Thomas Tusser, “Augusts husbandrie”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, London: English Dialect Society, published 1878, page 131
(obsolete) Alternative form of dollop. quotations
Dallop, s[ubstantive] a deal heap, a division or small heap, […]]
[1826, John Thomson, “Dallop”, in Etymons of English Words, Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, column 1
DALLOP, s[ubstantive] […] 5. A clumsy and shapeless lump of any thing tumbled about in the hands.]
In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by and for J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street, page 88