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Webster 1913 Edition
Blotter
Blot′ter
(blŏt′tẽr)
, Noun.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Blotter
BLOT'TER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
blotter
blotter
English
Noun
blotter (plural blotters)
- a piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture
- a daily register of arrests and other events in a police station
- a register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions
- All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
- He maintains the political blotter blog.
- 2003, Karen Hood-Caddy, The Wisdom of Water
- "The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."
Derived terms
Translations
piece of blotting paper — see blotting paper
police station register