1325–75; Middle English < Middle Dutch dogge fishing boat + -er -er 1
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"On the pay slips I'm a boundary rider," he says, when quizzed, "but the locals call me a dogger."
From Time Magazine Archive
I have had a worse cruise than a dismantled Dutch dogger on the Goodwin Sands.
From A Sailor of King George by Bevan, A. Beckford
That was about all I arrived in time to hear, but the "dogger" had been more fortunate.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
He immediately proceeded to follow the Dutch dogger, and chased her until she had, perforce, to run herself on to the sands at Ramsey to the north of the island.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble)
Thirty barrels of powther, landed out of a Dunkirk dogger in the auld lord's time—a' in the vau'ts of the auld tower,—the fire canna be far off it, I trow.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir
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