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plural dods
(Ulster) sulk, huff examples
(Ireland) lump examples
third-person singular simple present dods, present participle dodding, simple past and past participle dodded
(transitive) to cut off, as wool from sheep's tails, or horns from a cattle; to lop or clip off quotations examples
Angus-shire dodded cattle
1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Perth
Messrs. Toogood and Son’s Bronze Championship Medal for best dodded sheep of any pure breed.
1906, The Flock Book of Wensleydale Blue-faced Sheep, page 57
(rail transport, UK) A ground signal, such as a shunting disc. quotations examples
Shunting discs (or "dods") are generously provided, and following modern practice, most of them permit a movement in any direction for which the road is set.
1951 October, Norman Crump, “Signalling at Thorpe-le-Soken”, in Railway Magazine, page 649