Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The plug of tobacco ash left in the bowl of a pipe after it has been smoked.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plug or tap of a vessel.
  • noun A small rounded lump or mass; especially, the tobacco remaining in the bottom of a pipe after smoking, which is often put on the top of fresh tobacco when refilling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
  • noun Geordie A baby's dummy, pacifier.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From dot, lump (obsolete).]

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Probably from Middle English dottle or dottel, diminutives of dot ("lump or clot"), formed with -le.

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