dosser, street person
(noun) someone who sleeps in any convenient place
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dosser (plural dossers)
(British, Ireland) Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
A homeless and jobless person.
One who lodges in a doss-house.
• (one who avoids work): shirker, see also idler
dosser (plural dossers)
A pannier or basket.
A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
• Sedors, dorses, dosers, resods, rossed, soders, sordes
Source: Wiktionary
Dos"ser, n. Etym: [LL. dosserum, or F.dossier bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. dorsum back. See Dorsal, and cf. Dosel.] [Written also dorser and dorsel.]
1. A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. Beau. & Fl.
2. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 May 2025
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
