Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The plug of tobacco ash left in the bowl of a pipe after it has been smoked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plug or tap of a vessel.
- noun A small rounded lump or mass; especially, the tobacco remaining in the bottom of a pipe after smoking, which is often put on the top of fresh tobacco when refilling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The still burning or wholly burnt
tobacco plug in apipe . - noun Geordie A baby's
dummy ,pacifier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the subsequent smokes the ashes, "dottle," were saved, being placed in
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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Senator Lieberman is a voice of reason in all of this; and, that he does not agree with every tit and dottle of the anti-war progressive element now rightly or wrongly on the ascendent in the democrat party should not be used to deny him reelection.
Think Progress » Coulter Derides Call For New Iraq Strategy, Endorses Lieberman Approach 2006
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Both shoes froze for fully half an instant, then leaped up and turned over to dump out the dottle.
Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006
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He turned it over and knocked the dottle neatly out against the edge of the porch.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Of the few souvenirs of her father, dug from the ruins, there remained his pipe, and this she stuck between her teeth as he had done, inhaling the faded traces of tarry dottle, and impressing the stem with the indentations of her own teeth over the marks of his.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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He had attempted to cut the Gordian knot by giving up the cleaning of his pipe, but this had resulted in the inhalation of indescribably repellent, ferociously bitter, and appallingly slimy gobbets of cold dottle.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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She poked at the dottle in her pipe with a small silver-plated knife.
A Corpse is a Corpse Browne, Richard W 2001
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He knocked the dottle out of his pipe, blew through the stem, and stuck it back in his pocket.
Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996
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He jumped to his feet and circled his chair, ending up back at the fireplace, where he leant down to smack his pipe against the bricks and send the still-alight dottle spraying onto the coal and the hearth.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995
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He jumped to his feet and circled his chair, ending up back at the fireplace, where he leant down to smack his pipe against the bricks and send the still-alight dottle spraying onto the coal and the hearth.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995
reesetee commented on the word dottle
the plug of unburned tobacco left in a pipe after smoking
March 1, 2007
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