snotter (plural snotters)
(nautical) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
snotter (third-person singular simple present snotters, present participle snottering, simple past and past participle snottered)
(intransitive) To snivel; to cry or whine.
snotter (countable and uncountable, plural snotters)
The wattles of a turkey-cock.
(Scotland) Snot; mucus.
• Stentor, stentor
Source: Wiktionary
Snot"ter, v. i. Etym: [From Snot.]
Definition: To snivel; to cry or whine. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Snot"ter, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.)
Definition: A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
