Talk:dote

Additional woodworking sense

Another definition of dote, in woodworking, is rot. Also dode or doze. I was looking for the spelling of "dotey" but alas. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.88.104.237 (talk • contribs) 04:23, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Tea room discussion

Note: the below discussion was moved from the Wiktionary:Tea room.

New to this, I'm a carpenter who was looking up "dote" to find the spelling of doty, both of which mean rot or incipient decay in wood.

I found a spelling of doty here; http://www.answers.com/topic/doty-1 The US Forest Products Labs (a recognized industry authority) mentions the use of Dote, or Doze, in a pdf here; http://usasearch.gov/search?affiliate=fpl.fs.fed.us&v%3Aproject=firstgov&query=dote

Sorry I don't know enough about the parts of speech, or whether this is too specific, to edit a dictionary, thanks and best luck. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.88.104.237 (talk • contribs) 04:48, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Etymology

I wonder if dotty is related to this. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 07:29, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

No; there is no evidence of any connection. Please see etymology of dotty. Andrew H. Gray 13:13, 19 January 2016 (UTC) Andrew (talk)