dottle

A plug or tap of a vessel.

A small rounded lump or mass.

The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.

1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al. In refilling a pipe, where twist is smoked, a common practice is to save the dottle and put it on the top of the new-filled pipe. "Aw like a baccy dottle to leet wiv."

one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind

A baby's dummy, pacifier.

To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.

Stupid or senile.

When days and years proclaim you’re old — A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow, Then for support you can lay hold O’ the upright of your umberella.