Dumbdrudge, an imaginary village referred to in “Sartor,” where the natives toil and drudge away and say nothing about it, as villagers all over the world used contentedly to do, and did for most part, at the time “Sartor” was written, though less so now.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dumbarton * Dumbiedikes