Dozzle

Quick meaning: Dozzle is a noun meaning To stupify; to render dull or insensible.

Meaning

To stupify; to render dull or insensible.

More Meanings

1. To use a dozzle in order to prevent shrinkage when casting in a mold.
2. (engineering) A device, originally a heated sleave of fire clay, variously used to introduce molten metal to counter the formation of hollows in metal castings as they shrink while the mould cools. Now commonly called hot top or feeder head
3. (chiefly North-country English dialectal) a paste flower on top of a pie cover.
4. (chiefly North-country English dialectal) the straw ornament on top of a haystack.
5. (chiefly North-country English dialectal) the tobacco left at the bottom of a pipe and put on the top of the next fill: dottle; in a general sense, a plug or a cap to top something off.

Example Sentences

They also adopted the dozzle, invented by R. F. Mushet in 1861, to eliminate piping in the steel ingots.

How it dizzied and dozzled, too! And what a fratch yon was! My word! but Ralph did ding them over, both of them!

1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al. Neebody can smoke twist without a dozzle.

There was no one staying at the inn but myself, for a fortnight of "donking dozzling" rain, interspersed with what the natives call "girt pelts," which had made the place uninhabitable to strangers and trippers.

Word Forms

• dozzles
• dozzling
• dozzled

Synonyms for dozzle

Depending on context, synonyms include dottle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dottel, dottle, dook, dottie, dross, dooker.

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