dottle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the partly burned or unburned plug of tobacco left in the bowl of a pipe

   He emptied the cold dottle from his pipe before filling it again.

From Middle English dottel, 'a plug or stopper,' a diminutive related to dot in the older sense of a small lump. The modern tobacco sense refers to the compact plug remaining in a pipe bowl after smoking.

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