Definitions for blotter

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blotter blot·ter

Spelling: [blot-er]

IPA: /ˈblɒt ər/

Blotter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in blotter (belortt).

Definitions for blotter

noun

1. a piece of blotting paper used to absorb excess ink, to protect a desk top, etc.
2. a book in which transactions or events, as sales or arrests, are recorded as they occur:
3. Machinery. a soft washer of blotting paper or felt for cushioning a brittle object against shock or pressure or for increasing the friction or contact area between two surfaces.

Origin of blotter

1585-95; 1887 for def 2; blot¹ + -er¹

Examples for blotter

What I really wanted from her was an inspection of the book and blotter, and a deduction from it.

Then he let the pen fall on the blotter, for he had remembered the day.

For a moment he gave his entire attention to the blotter on the desk.

Yet it was not solid, because Willie could see the blotter through it.

She took up a pen at this, and opened the cash-book upon the blotter.

In that case my days are numbered, as the calendar said to the blotter.

Gertrude glanced up at him, then at her father, and then at the blotter on the desk.

The Sergeant pulled the blotter toward him mechanically and dipped his pen.

A blotter which has one end in water soon becomes wet all over.

It come one day when I was busy drawin' pictures of Piddie on the blotter.