noun. A piece or pad of blotting paper.

noun. A book containing daily records of occurrences or transactions.

noun. A piece of blotting-paper or other device for absorbing an excess of ink or other fluid, used especially in writing.

noun. In com., a waste-book in which are recorded all transactions in the order of their occurrence.

noun. The current record of arrests and charges in a police office: called in Great Britain a charge-sheet.

noun. One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

noun. A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.

noun. a piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture

noun. a daily register of arrests and other events in a police station

noun. absorbent paper used to dry ink

noun. the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station

"Then, too, every time we make a landing on an island, part of our strength, like water, soaking into a blotter, is absorbed in the men and materials that must be left there."

paper  written account  written record  

Potter  Trotter  cotter  dotter  hotter  

blotting-pad  broad-head  inkwell  linoleum  notepaper  

Domesday Book  absorbency  absorbent  absorption  account book