Crossword clues for dosser
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dosser \Dos"ser\, n. [LL. dosserum, or F.dossier bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. dorsum back. See Dorsal, and cf. Dosel.] [Written also dorser and dorsel.]
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A pannier, or basket.
To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers.
--Beau. & Fl. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context British Ireland English) Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work. 2 A homeless and jobless person. Etymology 2
alt. 1 A pannier or basket. 2 A hanging tapestry; a dorsal. n. 1 A pannier or basket. 2 A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
WordNet
n. someone who sleeps in any convenient place [syn: street person]
Usage examples of "dosser".
Superintendent halted beside the dosser, who was eating a chunk of bread and drinking some red wine.
As our rather grand procession swept by, a voice called my name from a doorway and I turned to see a small dosser, with a bobble hat pulled down over his eyes, holding out a tattered copy of the Evening Standard which had formed part of his bedding.
The dosser who had died had already given up on that struggle long before Brinkley had come on the scene.
He was as dishevelled and inarticulate as any street dosser who was down on his luck.
And, since she rarely doubted her abilities or her instincts, she knew that no mere drunk had crashed a black Zil saloon into the Moskva, despite the impressions of the only witness, a policeman on foot patrol along the quays, looking for dossers or black marketeers and the like.
And, since she rarely doubted her abilities or her instincts, she knew that no mere drunk had crashed a black Zil saloon into the Moskva, despite the impressions of the only witness, a policeman on foot patrol along the quays, looking for dossers or black marketeers and the like.