Dottle vs Tottle - What's the difference?
dottle | tottle |
A plug or tap of a vessel.
A small rounded lump or mass.
The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
*1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine , Faber p. 96:
*:one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind
*1981 , John Gardner, Freddy's Book , Abacus 1982, p. 38:
*: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.
*1984 , , page 89:
*2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :
*:I fiddle and scrape and poke for a while, banging out the dottle from my previous pipeful into an ashtray and puffing down the stem like a horn player warming up his trumpet.
(Geordie) A baby's dummy, pacifier.
As a noun dottle
is a plug or tap of a vessel.As a verb tottle is
(colloquial|intransitive) to walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.dottle
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe.