When days and years proclaim you’re old —
A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,
Then for support you can lay hold
O’ the upright of your umberella.

1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al.
In refilling a pipe, where twist is smoked, a common practice is to save the dottle and put it on the top of the new-filled pipe. "Aw like a baccy dottle to leet wiv."

one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind

I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.

He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe.

I fiddle and scrape and poke for a while, banging out the dottle from my previous pipeful into an ashtray and puffing down the stem like a horn player warming up his trumpet.

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