Definition of Dorters

1. Noun. (plural of dorter) ¹

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Definition of Dorters

1. dorter [n] - See also: dorter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorters

dorsum manus
dorsum nasi
dorsum of foot
dorsum of hand
dorsum of nose
dorsum of tongue
dorsum pedis
dorsum pedis reflex
dorsum scapulae
dorsum sellae
dort
dorted
dorter
dorters (current term)
dortier
dortiest
dorting
dortoir
dortoirs
dortour
dortours
dorts
dorty
dorveille
dory
doryphora
doryphoroi
doryphoros

Literary usage of Dorters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"Flowers 5-merous; stamens 5, free; disk 5 angular-annular; cap- •ule with a (usually white) fleshy epicarp, 3- or by abortion J Flowers in axillary dorters. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"A pack-saddle, panniers in which fish are carried on horseback. Sussex. dorters, fish-baskets, Ord. and Reg. p. 143. ..."

3. Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas (1878)
"De Winter made the grooms who carried the arms, and the dorters with the luggage, descend the first, and was about to follow them. ..."

4. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1865)
"Number of agents, Number of clerks, Labor loading and unloading freight, dorters and watchmen, Switchmen, Wood and water station attendance, Conductors and ..."

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