Crossword clues for doty
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doty \Do"ty\, a. [See Dottard.] Half-rotten; as, doty timber. [Local, U. S.] [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
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
Wikipedia
Doty may refer to:
Doty is a surname, meaning "the brave, strong man."
- Al Doty (born 1945), Minnesota State Representative
- Charles Doty (1824–1918), Wisconsin pioneer, surveyor, military officer, legislator
- Charles R. Doty (1924–2003), U.S. presidential write-in candidate
- Chris Doty, writer (1966–2006), film-maker
- David B. Doty (born 1950), composer
- Edward Doty (died 1655), indentured servant on the Mayflower
- James Duane Doty (1799–1865), politician
- Kathryn Adams Doty (born 1920), American actress.
- Mark Doty (born 1953), poet
- Missy Doty (born 1972), actress
- Paul M. Doty (1920–2011), scientist
- Phoebe Doty, 19th century prostitute
- Richard Doty, scientist
- Roy Doty (born 1922), cartoonist
- Sile Doty (1800–1876), 19th century outlaw
- Thomas Doty, detonated dynamite on board an airplane for insurance money
- William G. Doty (1852–1919), Michigan lawyer and politician
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.