Dottle Definition
dŏtl
noun
The tobacco residue left in a pipe after it has been smoked.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Dottle
Noun
Singular:
dottle
Plural:
dottlesOrigin of Dottle
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From Middle English dottel, dottelle (“a plug or tap of a vessel”), a diminutive of Old English dott (> English dot (“a point”)), equivalent to dot + -le. Related to Old English dyttan (“to stop up, clot”), Dutch dot (“a knot, lump, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”). More at dit.
From Wiktionary
From dot lump (obsolete)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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