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Half-rotten, as wood
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doty
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a. 1 (context carpentry of wood English) Suffering from rot, or waterlogged 2 (context US dialectal of a person English) senile; in one's dotage
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Usage examples of doty.
Young Doty, the adjutant, fiddled nervously with his pen and tried to go on signing papers, but failed.
Plume, the post commander, and Doty, his amazed and bewildered adjutant.
Prescott, there was a little package for Captain Wren, expressed, and Doty signed the receipt and sent it by the orderly.
Duane and Doty occasionally tiptoed in to glance inquiry at the fanning attendant, and then tiptoed out.
Lieutenant Doty, combining the duties of adjutant and officer of the day, was up and making the rounds.
She kicked up some duff and some doty sticks at the edge of the pile and set it afire.
Finally one of the women rose from the pallet on the floor and shoveled hot coals from the hearth into an iron pot and set it under the table and heaped doty wood on the coals to make smoke.
The air all around the table was thick with the rank black smoke from the smoldering doty wood, and the little flame from the pork lantern threw a halo around itself.