dottle (dotl)

[Also written dottel; IMG:content-3075.png:[blocks in formation] A plug or tap of a ve el.-2. A small rounded lump or ma ; especially, the tobacco remaining in the bottom of a pipe after smoking, which is often put on the top of fresh tobacco when refilling. [Scotch.] A snuffer-tray containing scraps of half-smoked tobacco, "pipe dottles ," as he called them, which were carefully resmoked over and over again till nothing but ash was left, Kingsley, Alton Locke, vi. dottrel (dot'rel), n . A variant of dotterel .