Lexicographical Neighbors of Douters
Literary usage of Douters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"douters. Amongst old-fashioned people, in the midland counties, it is not usual
to use extinguishers for putting out candles. An instrument is employed ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Dout, va to ' do out,' ie extinguish. douters, sb. a small pair of metal tongs
with flat ends for extinguishing candles by pinching the wick. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Grose, in his Glossary, specifies Gloucestershire as using it ; but gives douters
as a northern word. I believe it is a general name for the instruments he ..."
4. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1798)
"... worthy of remark \ it is, that the ancients appeared ¡doUters for the principle
if equality, and, that they were, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"douters, instruments like snuffers for extinguishing the candle without cutting
the wick ; the snuffers themselves. ..."
6. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1822)
"... preferable to the use of an extinguisher, or douters, to which there are many
objections. • ARTICLE XI. On Works in Niello and the ..."
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