dottle
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9.9
A small amount of unburned tobacco left in a pipe after smoking
- noun
- /ˈdɑːtəl/
- Archaic
:
residuo de tabaco
- Silas knocked the dottle out of his pipe, banging the bowl gently against an ash tree.
- knock out the dottle
Examples
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She found a small dottle of tobacco left in the bowl after her last smoke.
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"He went with the Moroccan pirates," he replied, knocking the dottle into the bay.
Fiction book (2000) -
It was as he sat knocking out the dottle of a second pipeful that he became aware of small feet upon the stairway and the sound of a hand.
Fiction book (2000) -
After smoking, he always emptied the dottle from his pipe into the garden.
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He carefully scraped the dottle out of the pipe before cleaning it.
Synonyms
ash
vsdottle
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1.0
The gray powder left after something burns
is partly unburned tobacco left in a pipe bowl
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dottle comes from an old word meaning 'small lump' or 'dot' and is like the simple word dot. So dottle names the little lump of unburned or partly burnt tobacco left in a pipe.