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plowter

plowter is the alternative spelling of plouter.

Meaning of plouter

Verb

plouter (third-person singular simple present plouters, present participle ploutering, simple past and past participle ploutered)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
    • As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Servants of the Queen”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 187
  2. (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) To potter.
    • He's left th' yate ut t' full swing, and miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs uh corn, un plottered through, raight o'er intuh t' meadow!1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter IX, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 187

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Forms of plowter

Verb
third-person singular presentplowters
present participleplowtering
past participleplowtered
pastplowtered
Noun
pluralplowters

Questions about plowter

What is plowter the alternative spelling of?
Plowter is the alternative spelling of plouter.

Words near plowter in the dictionary

  1. plowsoles
  2. plowstaff
  3. plowstaffs
  4. plowtail
  5. plowtails
  6. plowter
  7. plowtered
  8. plowtering
  9. plowters
  10. plowwoman
  11. plowwomen

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