Definitions for blotters

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blotters blot·ter

Spelling: [blot-er]

IPA: /ˈblɒt ər/

Blotters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 288 anagrams from letters in blotters (belorstt).

Definitions for blotters

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 blotters

1585-95; 1887 for def 2; blot¹ + -er¹

Examples for blotters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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