dozzle noun 4verb 2forms 3 noun4 •the tobacco left at the bottom of a pipe and put on the top of the next fill: dottle; in a general sense, a plug or a cap to top something off.Neebody can smoke twist without a dozzle. — 1892 •A device, originally a heated sleave of fire clay, variously used to introduce molten metal to counter the formation of hollows in metal castings as they shrink while the mould cools. Now commonly called hot top or feeder headThey also adopted the dozzle, invented by R. F. Mushet in 1861, to eliminate piping in the steel ingots. — 2020 •a paste flower on top of a pie cover. •the straw ornament on top of a haystack. verb2 •To use a dozzle in order to prevent shrinkage when casting in a mold.Ingots are still cast into moulds with parallel sides, but they are dozzled, and it is generally believed that the ingots so produced are quite sound. — 1918 •To stupify; to render dull or insensible.How it dizzied and dozzled, too! And what a fratch yon was! My word! but Ralph did ding them over, both of them! — 1885 formsdozzled · dozzling · dozzles
