dout
Word-form referencesdoubt
Verb
To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
- Transitive
- Related words
- doutera cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke
- Examples
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Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.
More examples (1)
The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting.
Word forms
doutsdoutingdouteddouted