dottle
Collocations
5ADJ.
fellow, old
VERB + DOTTLE
burning, guards, poked, save
DOTTLE + NOUN
gouty
PREP.
with
ADV.
busily
Definitions
noun
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.
verb
To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.
adj
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.
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41892, 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
Wiktionaryone hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind
WiktionaryI clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.
WiktionaryWhen 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.
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