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▪ I. dotter, n.|ˈdɒtə(r)|
[f. dot v. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which dots; an instrument for making dots; spec. a hand-instrument used in embossing letters for the blind.
1832Examiner 583/1 A musician may be created on any emergency with a dotter and ruled paper. 1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. i. 84/1 Put on the eyes [in bird's-eye maple] by dabbing with the dotter. 1883N. Sheppard Geo. Eliot's Ess. Introd. 13 A dotter of I's and crosser of T's.
2. A device in which a pencil dots an oscillating target fixed to a gun when fired without ammunition, used in training gunners to take aim.
1903Daily Chron. 25 June 4/5 Neither Captain Percy Scott nor his dotter were on view. 1906Ibid. 5 June 2/3 Admiral Percy Scott's dotter and aiming apparatus.
▪ II. ˈdotter, v. Obs. or dial.
[Related to dodder and totter.]
intr. To move unsteadily and infirmly; to totter; to fall in a tottering way.
c1420Avow. Arth. xvi, He began to dotur and dote Os he hade keghet scathe. a1440Sir Degrev. 1109 The duk dotered to the ground, On erthe swyfftly he swouned. 1524in Ramsay Evergreen I. 213 With Grief..I dottard owre on Sleip. 1789Davidson Seasons 112 (Jam.) Willy dottart by himsel Among the hens. |