dodger (2)

A griddle cake; as, a corn - dodger, . ( U.S. Colloq. *dodg-er-ỹ, s. [Eng. dodger (1); -y.] A dodge, a trick, an artifice; trickery. "When he had put this dodgery upon those that had gaped for the vacancy."- Hacket : Life of Williams, p. 98. dodg-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [DODGE, v.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Ord. Lang.: Starting suddenly to one side; evading, tricking. 2. Wheelwright .: Said of mortises, when they are not in the same plane at the hub. By spreading the butts of the spokes where they enter the hub, dodging on each side of a median line alternately, the wheel is stiffened against lateral strain. The wheel is said to be staggered. ( Knight .) C. As subst.: The act of escaping by a sudden start; evasion, trickery. dodg-ỹ, a. [Eng. dodg ( e ); -y.] Full of dodges or skillful and rapid movements; crafty, artful, tricky. "While the game was in this position. dodgy run, got through."-London Field. by a good dod-1-pāte, *dod -1-põle, *dod-i-poll, *doddy-pole, dod-dy-poule, *dot 1-pole, s . [Prolably from dote , v. (q. v.), and Eng. pate , poll =the head.] A blockhead, a numskull, a thickhead. "Ye noddy peakes, ye doddy poules , doe ye believe him?" -Latimer : Sermon iii. marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0309.png:[blocks in formation] being in the year 1681. The Dodo, Didus inept us, was a heavy bird, bigger than a turkey, inc a pable of flight, Dodo. and entirely unlike the pigeons in general appearance. The wings were rudimentary, the legs short and stout, and the tail a tuft of soft plumes. The beak was strongly arched toward the end, and the upper mandible had a hooked point like that of a bird of prey. The Dodo owed its extermination to the fact that it was good to eat and was unable to fly. "The dodo [is] a bird the Dutch call walghvogel or dod Bersen; her body is round and fat, which occasions her slow pace; or that, her corpulency."- Sir T. Herbert: Travels , p. 382.