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Definition of Dottrels
1. dottrel [n] - See also: dottrel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dottrels
Literary usage of Dottrels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1890)
"RO Has received the dottrels by Goodall ; which were presented to the King by
Long of the Privy Chamber, ... The dottrels you cent were thankfully received ..."
2. British Zoology by Thomas Pennant (1776)
"... on Cory at fs Crudities : Мой worthy man with thee it is even thus, As men
take dottrels, ... watch the arrival of the dottrels, ..."
3. England as Seen by Foreigners in the Days of Elizabeth & James the First by William Brenchley Rye (1865)
"... with thee it is even thus, As men take dottrels, so hast thou ta'n us, ...
and in the catching of dottrels, we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"The same gentleman informs us that he saw dottrels in pairs on the Grampian
mountains, but never saw a young bird, (meaning a runner, incapable of flight). ..."
5. The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: Printed from by Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, George Colman, Peter Whalley (1811)
"See, they stretch out their legs like dottrels", ... ¡the A debt women may
challenge, to be sued to, Especially from such they may command, 19 dottrels. ..."
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