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dogbolt
noun 2
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dull
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noun
1
A fool; a contemptible person.
And experience sheweth, that he which was void of gifts before he was ordered priest, is as very an ass and dogbolt as he was before,[…].
1621, Thomas Middleton, Honourable Entertainments, 2007, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, Collected Works, page 1440, Dull dogbolt!
noun
1
The bolt of the capsquare over the trunnion of a cannon.
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And experience sheweth, that he which was void of gifts before he was ordered priest, is as very an ass and dogbolt as he was before,[…].
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1621, Thomas Middleton, Honourable Entertainments, 2007, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, Collected Works, page 1440, Dull dogbolt!
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1655, James Shirley, The Gentleman of Venice Act 3, Scene 1, 1833, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce (editors), The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Volume 5, page 35, They are dogbolts!
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