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 18 WEST CORNWALL QL06SABT. Dobbet, adj, short ^ She's a regular little dohbet/' Dock, the crupper of a saddle. Dooy, €uij pretty ; kind ; neat. Speaking of a young girl, she is said to be docy. Thus, *' she's a docy little maid." P. W. P., Jago, M. B. Dogged. "And timber had to be dogged (dragged) many miles." Bottrell. Doldmmi, low spirits. "Tm down in the doldrwns,** Dole, a parcel of copper ore; a share in a mine; mine dues. Dollop, a large piece. "Don't cut such a (lollop.^* Dooda, a stupid. Doodle, V. to cheat ; to deceive ; .to trie. Doodling, part, cheating. Doole, Dolley, v. to toll a belL DoUM, V, to yield; to give up. Donsse. "I have known poor people call a pillow stuffed with husks of winnowed com a dotuae piUow.» P. W. P., Jago, M. B. Chaff from winnowed com is douit, Donst, V, to pelt. " I maade the purpoashals to dowt 'em with stoanes." — Unde Jan Trenoodle, Doust, Douce, a blow. " A douce on the ohaoks." Polwhele. Donster, a fall ; a thump. Gar- land. Dousting, a thrashing. Dover, to pay all talkers, no listeners. Dow. "The aw'd doio, a dis- agreeable, cross old woman, one who will not do what she is wanted to." Gwinear, 1868, T. 0. Down, Down-daunted, p. p, as adj, cast down ; depressed. ' * He's drMdfuUy down-daunted^ regu- larly down in the mouth." Dow uses, downs; commons. Down-souse, aulv. plainly; frankly; out-spoken. "I up and told un dovm^aouee,'* Dowse, V. to throw on the ground. Dowser, a man who discovers metal by dowsing. Dowser, a forked twig of hazel, used by Cornish miners to dis- cover a vein of metaL It is held loosely in the hand, the point to the doweer'a breast, and is said to turn round when th^ are standing over metaL Dowiing, jMir^. discovering metals by means of a doioaer. Drag, V, to drawl. " Don't dra^ out your words." Drain, a drone. Dram, a swathe of cut BottrelL Drang, a narrow gutter; a drain. Drash, v. to thrash com. Drashel, a flail. Draw-bucket, a bucket to draw water from a well. Dredge, a mixed crop of barley, oats, and wheat. Dredgy ore, a stone impregnated or traversed by mineral veins of ore. Mining Record. The poorer sort. Bormse Nat. Hist., 203, through W. N. Dresser, a stand with shelves for earthenware. '*A11 over the house, .like Aaron's dresatr^ HalliweU says, N. Country, overturning." In Cornwall, "Down with your dreaser,^ or "Over goes your apple-cart* M. A. C. com. passage; a
 * What dole do you pay ? "
 * DotMe out your money."
 * Out for a walk on the downsea,^
 * Down with his apple-cart, an