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shaddock|ˈʃædək|
Also 8 shattuck, shaddoc, shadock, chad(d)ock.
[Named after a Captain Shaddock: see quot. 1707.]
The fruit of Citrus decumana (also called pompelmoose) resembling an orange, but very much larger. In stricter use, applied to the large pear-shaped varieties of the species, the smaller and rounder varieties being called grape-fruit.
1696[see shaddock tree]. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 41 In Barbados the Shaddocks surpass those of Jamaica in goodness. The seed of this was first brought to Barbados by one Captain Shaddock, Commander of an East-India Ship, who touch'd at that Island in his Passage to England, and left the Seed there. 1720S. Sewall Diary 1 Jan., Mr. Cooper sends my wife a present of oranges and a shattuck. 1764Grainger Sugar Cane i. 44 The golden shaddoc, the forbidden fruit. 1773Chaddock [see pompelmoose]. 1823Byron Island i. viii, A seaman..Held the moist shaddock to his parched mouth. 1884De Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 181 Oranges are distinguished from shaddocks by the complete absence of down on the young shoots and leaves.
b. The tree bearing this fruit.
1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxv. (1794) 371 Shaddock, which has them [the leaves] obtuse, and emarginate or notched at the end. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 139 The orange, lemon, shaddock, pomelo,..were weighed down by their own golden fruit.
c. attrib., as shaddock-bower, etc.
a1818M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 23 My coffee walks and *shaddock bowers.
1892Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 130 He has stripped my rails of the *shaddock-frails.
1731Bradley Gardening 592 The *Chadock Orange. 1797Encycl. Brit. V. 29/1 s.v. Citrus, The great Shaddock orange, or pumplemoes.
1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 81 The orange is best propagated by grafting or budding on lemon or *shaddock stocks. 1696*Shaddock-tree [see pompelmoose]. 1884Leisure Hour Feb. 78/2 The fragrant blossoms of large shaddock-trees. |