dottle

A noun referring to the residue of partially burnt tobacco that remains caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking.

• 🇫🇷Substance restante au fond d'une pipe après la combustion du tabac, formée de cendres et de résidus agglomérés.

1. Pipe tobacco residue C2 formal

   The leftover, partially burned tobacco that remains in the bottom of a smoking pipe after use.

   • He carefully cleaned the dottle from his pipe after finishing his smoke.
   • The old pipe was filled with a thick layer of dottle.
   • She tapped the dottle out into the ashtray before refilling the bowl.

   🇫🇷Résidu de tabac au fond d'une pipe

   Synonymes: heel

• dottles plural form
• dottles' possessive plural form
• dottle's possessive singular form