Dotterel is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 169 anagrams from letters in dotterel (deelortt).
First recorded in 1400-50, dotterel is from the late Middle English word dotrelle. See dote, -rel
The Johnnie Faws moved restlessly up and down the village; but most of them gathered at the dotterel, though they drank nothing.
The dotterel is one of the most interesting of British birds.
Last night we had dotterel and sandpipers for dinner, this morning greenshanks, which are very good birds indeed.
One day I managed to get six brace of ptarmigan and some dotterel—and very pretty birds they were.
dotterel (Eudromias morinellus), a species of plover which breeds in the north of Europe, and returns to the south for the winter.
A dotterel goes plaintively piping over the stones, and the "cheep, cheep," of the awakening ling-birds rises from every brae.
Neither do the dotterel and the ring-ouzel, the latter in song so mellow, both moving on speedily into the hilly districts.
In short, whatever the fowler does, the dotterel does the same.
The dotterel (Pluvialis morinellus) is a little larger than a Blackbird.
Such a character as dotterel is hardly made to allude to the pocula coronata of the Romans.