dottle

American  

[dot-l] / ˈdɒt l /

Or dottel

noun

1. the plug of half-smoked tobacco in the bottom of a pipe after smoking.

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dottle British  

/ ˈdɒtəl /

noun

1. the plug of tobacco left in a pipe after smoking

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Etymology

Origin of dottle

1815–25; dial. dot small lump (probably identical with dot ¹ ) + -le

Example Sentences

At his Pentagon desk, Burke smacks the dottle from his pipe against his heavy Annapolis ring, looks far beyond today's Navy and sees Nautilus as the forerunner of the all nuclear fleet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author of Crazy Like a Fox and Chicken Inspector No. 23 and the maestro of words such as wattles and dottle, boffin and horripilating was surely up to the challenge.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there is Grandma from Sweden who chews pipe dottle and comes to Denmark fully intending to die, but lives on to plague and embarrass the boy's mother with her unhousebroken back-country habits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearly anyone could be a ventriloquist if one's dummy talked like this: "How 'dout a dottle of deer?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Taggert took his pipe out of his mouth and tapped the dottle into a nearby ash disposal unit.

From Psichopath by Garrett, Randall