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Definition of Dorters
1. dorter [n] - See also: dorter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorters
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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