plowter

As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

The sea was extremely little, but there went a hollow plowter round the base of it.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and

The Jungle Book. 1893

The sea was extremely little, but there went a hollow plowter round the base of it.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The sea was extremely little, but there went a hollow plowter round the base of it.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I'm gaun to plowter aboot a 'day an' see the toon.

The Garret and the Garden 1859