·adj Decayed.
II. Dotterel ·vi A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull.
III. Dotterel ·vi A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.
·- The <<Turnstone>>. ...
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