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From dot + -er.

• Homophone: daughter (cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

dotter (plural dotters)

1. An instrument for drawing dots.
   • 1869, Cameron Knight, The Mechanician and Constructor for Engineers:

     Both edges of the crosshead are thus marked, the short centre lines being easily scratched with a scriber as soon as the arcs are made with a calliper, in fact, a mere dot with a dotter is sufficient.

   • 2011, Jane Symington, Karen Peppercorn, At Your Fingertips - The Nail Technician's Companion, page 289:

     These have a long fine brush and a dotter in the lid of the brush for making small dots of the paint on the nail.

• i-dotter

• detort, rotted

Inherited from Old Norse dóttir, from Proto-Norse ᛞᛟᚺᛏᚱᛁᛉ (dohtriʀ, “daughters”), from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (“daughter”).

dotter f (definite singular dottera, indefinite plural døtrer, definite plural døtrene)

1. daughter

   Antonym: son

• stedotter
• stykdotter

• datter (Bokmål)

• “dotter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Old Swedish dōttir, from Old Norse dóttir, from Proto-Norse ᛞᛟᚺᛏᚱᛁᛉ (dohtriʀ, “daughters”), from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (“daughter”).

• IPA^(key): /²dɔtɛr/, [ˈdɔtːˌtər]

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dotter c

1. a daughter

   Coordinate term: son

   • 1971, Contact, “Fyrvaktarns [fyrvaktarens] dotter [The lighthouse keeper's daughter]”, in Utmarker [Outfields]‎^[1]:

     Hon föddes i kostern på väg in mot land, liten och tunn i bränningens kittel. Stormarna hälsade henne till livet, men moderns själ bar de till himlen. Och klockorna sjöng i Dyrö församling. De ringde för fyrvaktarns [fyrvaktarens] dotter.

     She was born in the koster [type of wide sailboat] on the way to [on the way in toward] land, small and thin in the cauldron of the surf. The storms greeted her to life, but her mother's soul they bore to heaven. And the bells sang in Dyrö parish. They were ringing for the lighthouse keeper's daughter.

• barn

• “dotter”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)