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Blotter definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLOT'TER, n. In counting houses, a waste book.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: absorbent paper used to dry ink [syn: blotting paper, blotter]
2: the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station [syn: blotter, day book, police blotter, rap sheet, charge sheet]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1591 1. a piece of blotting paper 2. a book in which entries (as of transactions or occurrences) are made temporarily pending their transfer to permanent record books <police blotter>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a sheet or sheets of blotting-paper, usu. inserted into a frame. 2 US a temporary recording-book, esp. a police charge-sheet.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blotter Blot"ter (bl[o^]t"t[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(blotters) A blotter is a large sheet of blotting paper kept in a special holder on a desk. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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