mottle
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“I’ve seen many other things happen to port-a-potties but never an explosion,” Jason Mottle, who has been working the construction site, told WPRI-TV.
From Fox News • Aug. 22, 2019
His eldest boy, having won the Mottle Scholarship, was going up to Cambridge in the Autumn.
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
The Mottle, possessing a motor attachment, can be wound up and it will then travel all over the bed, diffusing an agreeable warmth everywhere.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 by Various
Mottle, mot′l, v.t. to mark with spots as if stained.—n. the arrangement of spots on any mottled surface, in marble, &c.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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