The daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station

Usage examples of blotter.

Rapping a pen against his desk blotter, Nestler weighed their comments.

Oval Office routine: holding the document steady on the blotter for Daniel Galbraith to sign with his left hand, while the useless arm hung down at his side.

Guy was seated at his desk, his arms crossed on the blotter before him, his head resting on them.

Greaves was behind his desk already, apparently studying a piece of paper on his blotter before him.

Greaves placed the paper neatly in the upper right corner of his blotter, fussily squared it up with the edge.

Before each chair was neatly laid a leather-edged blotter alongside a gold-tooled tub containing pens, suggesting that all any client needed to provide here was his cheque-book.

He stopped fiddling with the spoon and dropped it onto the blotter where it left a round stain.

It thumped once against the thick blotter before Swafford grabbed and opened it.

He sat there for a moment, drawing the name Graniteville on his desk blotter and circling it idly with a ballpoint.

DRMO reference binders for the past hour and a half, doo VJ dling on the blotter pad as he thought about the case.

The desk was laden with a matching leather blotter, an in-and-out basket, a pen and pencil set, and picture frame.

For one thing, I could see now that his blotter was covered with scribbles: doodles, telephone numbers, what looked like case numbers, cartoon dogs and cats in various poses, appointments, names and addresses, drawings of cars with flames shooting from the tailpipes.

In one corner of the blotter was a hand-drawn calendar for the month of February, the numbers neatly filled in.

I tried comparing the numbers on the phone bills with the numbers on the blotter and that netted me a hit.

But he never mentioned that he had walked behind her through the department, past twelve occupied desks at the top of a shift, down the corridor packed with uniforms, and past the garage security guard, as she carried a long, thick roll of cork under one arm and a desk blotter under the other, with a calendar wadded in her purse and God knows what else.