Definitions for dossers

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dossers dos·ser

Spelling: [dos-er]

IPA: /ˈdɒs ər/

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

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in dossers (deorsss).

Definitions for dossers

noun

1. a basket for carrying objects on the back; pannier.
2. an ornamental covering for the back of a seat, especially a throne or the like.
3. dossal (def 1).
4. a person who sleeps in a doss house.

Origin of dossers

1300-50; Middle English Anglo-French; Middle French dossier Medieval Latin dosserium, variant of dorserium, equivalent to dors(um) back + -erium -ery; replacing Middle

Examples for dossers

In fact, the modern “dosser” is better and more decently housed.

I hope 'tis not the first time you have seen a child carried out of town in a dosser for fear of the plague.

Leastways so the dosser explains it, of course it is all Tommy rot.

dosser, dos′er, n. a rich hanging of tapestry for the walls of a hall or of a chancel: a pannier.