dosser

dosser 1[dos-er] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for dosser on Thesaurus.com noun

1. a basket for carrying objects on the back; pannier.
2. an ornamental covering for the back of a seat, especially a throne or the like.
3. dossal(def 1).

Also dorser. Origin of dosser 1 1300–50; Middle English Anglo-French; Middle French dossier Medieval Latin dosserium, variant of dorserium, equivalent to dors(um) back + -erium -ery; replacing Middle English dorser Medieval Latin dorserium dosser 2[dos-er] noun Chiefly British.

1. a person who sleeps in a doss house.

Origin of dosser 2First recorded in 1865–70; doss + -er1 Related Words for dosser drapery, hanging, arras, dosser Examples from the Web for dosser Historical Examples of dosser

Leastways so the Dosser explains it, of course it is all Tommy rot.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 26, 1891

Various

I hope ’tis not the first time you have seen a child carried out of town in a dosser for fear of the plague.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15)

W. Carew Hazlitt

Dosser, dos′er, n. a rich hanging of tapestry for the walls of a hall or of a chancel: a pannier.

Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

Various

In fact, the modern “dosser” is better and more decently housed.

The Great North Road: York to Edinburgh

Charles G. Harper

British Dictionary definitions for dosser dosser 1 noun

1. rare a bag or basket for carrying objects on the back

Word Origin for dosser C14: from Old French dossier, from Medieval Latin dorsārium, from Latin dorsum back dosser 2 noun slang

1. British a person who sleeps in dosshouses
2. British another word for dosshouse
3. a lazy person; idler