noun
- The plug of tobacco left in the bowl of a pipe after smoking.
Usage: Also spelled 'dottle'.; Informal or colloquial.
Examples
- He tapped out the dottel from his pipe into the ashtray.
- The old man cleaned the dottel from his bowl before refilling it.
- A dottel remained in the pipe after he finished smoking.
- She scraped away the dottel to prepare the pipe for fresh tobacco.