dorse
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Etymology 1 edit
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Noun edit
dorse (plural dorses)
- The Baltic cod or variable cod (Gadus morhua callarias).
Etymology 2 edit
Compare Latin dorsum (“the back”).
Noun edit
dorse (plural dorses)
- (obsolete) The back of a book.
- 1691, Anthony Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses:
- books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses
- (obsolete) A dossal.
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References edit
- “dorse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Archive.org
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dorse