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单词 blotter
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blottern.

Brit. /ˈblɒtə/, U.S. /ˈblɑdər/
Etymology: Formed as blot v. + -er suffix1.
1. One who, or that which, blots.
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a. A scribbler, a sorry writer.
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b. One who stains or defiles.
c. blotter out: a quencher, extinguisher, annihilator.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation > one who annihilates
extinguisher1562
expungerc1611
exterminator1611
annihilator1666
decreator1678
blotter out1827
exterminatrix1880
exterminatress1891
liquidator1949
zapper1969
1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xv. sig. I8v These blotters of paper.
a1631 S. Harsnett Serm. Ezek. in R. Steward Three Serm. (1656) 131 Thou tookest the blotting of Thine image in Paradise as a blemish to Thyself; and Thou saidst to the blotter, Because thou hast done it, on thy belly shalt thou creep.
1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander lxxxiv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 97 Blank Oblivion—blotter out of light.
d. A ‘brand-blotter’. U.S.
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1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xii. r26 There ain't no sense in totin' it by th' glass to a crowd of blotters. They'll hold more liquor than a gopher hole.
2. A thing used for drying wet ink-marks, as a piece of blotting-paper or a blotting-pad.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > materials for blotting
blotting-paper1519
pin-dust1561
blotter1591
blotting-book1598
writing dust1646
writing sand1656
sucking-papera1665
pounce1704
sand1753
blotting-pad1857
blotting1872
roller1875
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Borrador A blotter, a blotting paper.
1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 78 Paper—soft and soppy by the loss of glazing—acts as a blotter.
1884 Boston Lit. World 19 Apr. 132/2 His pen spluttered..and he used no blotter.
3. ‘A term applied in counting-houses to a waste-book’ (Craig 1847); also to a rough copy of a letter.
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1769 Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. 12 284 In looking over the blotter I found your agreet with Rumsey to sell Deerhill for £50 Pena currency.
1770 Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. 13 61 Pray let me know the sum you charge in yr Blotter as paid you by me when I went downe.
4. A record of arrests and charges in a police office; a charge-sheet; also gen. a record-book or list. U.S.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police records
police blotter1861
charge-sheet1866
murder book1876
blotter1887
charge-book1890
crime sheet1902
mug book1902
occurrence book1929
rap sheet1949
sheet1958
murder file1967
murder log1972
society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun]
Domesday Book1178
registera1325
bookc1405
red book?1445
registery1483
register book1515
regesture1526
registrya1529
enroll1533
ledger1550
ledger-book1553
registry book1562
by-book1593
regest1670
registrary1696
hall-book1746
blotter1887
1887 Harper's Mag. Mar. 500/2 Every item of police duty, and of civil or criminal occurrence, is inscribed on the ‘blotter’.
1901 Munsey's Mag. 24 540/2 It is a month of uncommon virtue when the blotter shows as few as a hundred arrests.
1906 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 264 It was necessary..to examine the day-book or blotter in the chief clerk's office [at the Patent Office].
1910 Washington Times 14 Dec. 1 Three more additions were made yesterday to the hospital blotters.
1926 J. Black You can't Win xix. 299 I never put his name, which is my name, on a police blotter or a prison register while he was alive.
1965 ‘R. L. Pike’ (title) Police blotter.
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