Dottle

Quick meaning: Dottle is a noun meaning A plug or tap of a vessel.

Meaning

A plug or tap of a vessel.

More Meanings

1. A small rounded lump or mass.
2. The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
3. (Geordie) A baby's dummy, pacifier.
4. To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.
5. (Scotland) Stupid or senile.
6. (Scotland) A dotard.

Example Sentences

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

He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe.

I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.

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.

Word Forms

• dottles
• dottel
• dottling
• dottled

Synonyms for dottle

Depending on context, synonyms include dodipole, dotel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pottleful, stopple, spile, pottlepot, stopcock, bung-hole.

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