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Blotter   /blˈɑtər/   Listen
noun
Blotter  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
2.
(Com.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.





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"Blotter" Quotes from Famous Books



... Russia, and Germans in Germany. My writing materials consist of an inkstand, a sand-box, a few pens, a pencil, and a blotter. In my trousers pocket I carry a purse, and in my overcoat pocket I carry a pocket book; a larger portfolio I carry under my arm. Put on the table the sugar-basin, the ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer
... sleeper on the hardwood bench next mine, nor the bald-headed, big-lipped police sergeant who bent over his desk in the corner, impervious to these usual outbursts of the newly arrested, as he laboriously scrawled in the police blotter the ...
— The Log of a Noncombatant • Horace Green
... very sorry later, and wept many a bitter tear over the new blotter her father bought her, and the nice muff and boa he gave her. When it was too late, she could never see them without remembering the delight with which he unwrapped them and gave them to her, the expectant look in his kind eyes of the pleasure they would bring to her, and of her own coldness, her ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... a big, coffin-shaped plywood box that looked like it weighed a ton. This brawny type just dumped it through the door of the police station and started away. I looked up from the blotter and shouted ...
— Arm of the Law • Harry Harrison
... pipe out of a drawer in his desk, loaded and lighted it, stretched his arms, and sat down in his desk chair. In the middle of his blotter was a stack of papers his stenographer had laid there just before she went out. On top of the heap was a memorandum in her handwriting, ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster


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