▪ I. dogger1
(ˈdɒgə(r))
[Anglo-Fr. and ME. doggere; also in Du. and LG. from 15th c. Origin uncertain.
The Du. word is evidently related to the obscure MDu. dogge, in phr. ten dogge varen to go to the cod-fishing; cf. also Kilian, ‘dogghe-boot cymba major’; Hexham, ‘Dogge-boot, Great-bark’. Akin to dogge or dogger is the Icel. dugga in same sense; with the statement cited by Vigfusson that thirty English fiski-duggur came fishing about Iceland in 1413, cf. our quot. 1491 and the reference there given. The Dogger-bank is generally supposed to be named either from this word or MDu. dogger trawler; cf. Kilian, ‘dogger funda, sacculus, reticulum’; Hexham, ‘Dogger, Fisher's Boat’; also ‘Sling or casting net, also Satchell.’]
1. A two-masted fishing vessel with bluff bows, somewhat resembling a ketch, used in the North Sea deep sea fisheries: formerly applied to English craft as well as those of other nations, but now practically restricted to Dutch fishing vessels (though out of use in Holland itself).
In the 17th and 18th c. they frequently acted as privateers.
| 1356 Act 31 Edw. III, iii. c. 1 Towȝ les niefs appelles Doggeres. 1491 Hen. VII. in Paston Lett. No. 922 III. 367 That..all the dogers of thos partes schuld have our licens to departe in the viage towardes Islond, as they have been accustommyd to do yerly in tyme passyd. 1566 R. Mighells in A. Suckling Suffolk (1847) 86 Then there were thirteen or fourteen doggers belonging to the said town, and now but one. 1666 Lond. Gaz. No. 25/4 The Coast at Bridlington has not for 10 dayes been infested with any Capers, save onely one Dogger of 8 guns. 1680 Ibid. No. 1548/4 The Adventurers of the Royal Fishery, are now fitting out their Doggers from the River..for the White Herring and Cod Fishings. c 1682 J. Collins Making Salt Eng. 111 The Dutch..have out this Winter 220 Doggers. 1692 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 494 A French dogger was brought in prize there. 1799 Sir H. Parker in Naval Chron. II. 347 Two Spanish doggers, sloop rigged. 1810 Hull Rockingham 15 Dec. 2/1 The beautiful oak-built Dogger called the Rover. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle xv. (1859) 358 Like a clumsy dish-shaped Dutch dogger. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dogger, a Dutch smack of about 150 tons..principally used for fishing on the Dogger Bank. |
† 2. One of the crew of a dogger = dogger-man. Obs.
| 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 4 Suche person or persones, as..be doggers otherwyse callid Doggermen. |
3. Short for Dogger Bank: see 4.
| 1887 E. J. Mather (title), Nor'ard of the Dogger. |
4. Comb. a. In apposition, as † dogger-boat, dogger-caper, dogger-pink, dogger-privateer. b. similative, as dogger-built, dogger-rigged adjs. c. Dogger Bank, † dogger-sands, name of a great bank or shoal in the North Sea; dogger-fish n. pl., fish taken by doggers or on the Dogger Bank; dogger-man, one of the crew of a dogger (see 2).
| 1666 Lond. Gaz. No. 31/4 Some few Dogger boates plying about the *Dogger banks, whereof five labor to infest those parts. 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes (1859) I. 531 The Dogger Bank Cod. 1885 Lyell's Elem. Geol. vi. (ed. 4) 81 That great shoal called the Dogger-bank, about sixty miles east of the coast of Northumberland, and occupying an area about as large as Wales..in its shallower parts is less than forty feet under water. |
| 1662 J. Smith England's Improv. Rev. 252 The Hollanders fishing for Herring, Ling, and Cod, with Busses and *Dogger-boats. |
| 1680 Lond. Gaz. No. 1526/4 Pink, *Dogger built. |
| 1703 Ibid. No. 3889/4 A *Dogger Caper, of 4 Guns and 45 Men, belonging to Ostend. |
| 1356 Act 31 Edw. III, iii. c. 2 Assiz sur le pesson de *Doggerefissh & lochefissh. 1607 Cowell Interpr., Doggerfish..seemeth to be fish brought in those ships to Blackeney haven. |
| 1703 Lond. Gaz. No. 3939/3 A *Dogger Pink, of about 150 Tuns. |
| 1745 Vernon in Naval Chron. IX. 191 A..*dogger privateer has been taken. |
| 1805 Mitchell Ibid. XIII. 493 The..Privateer Orestes, *Dogger rigged. |
| 1665 Lond. Gaz. No. 9/2 They saw not one Man of War, but within the *Dogger-sands about twelve Dogger-Boats. |
▪ II. ˈdogger2 rare.
One who dogs: see dog v. 1.
| 1611 Cotgr., Espie, a spie..obseruer, dogger of people. |
▪ III. dogger3
(ˈdɒgə(r))
Also 8 Sc. -ar.
[local term of uncertain origin, perh. a deriv. of dog.]
1. dial. A kind of ironstone, commonly found in globular concretions; a nodule of this; = cathead 2.
| 1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 63 A mine, in colour much resembling that of alom..usually called by them Doggers, or Cats-heads. 1757 Walker in Phil. Trans. L. 145 Another fossil of a brown colour..called by the miners dogger; a thin seam of which often lies in the midst of the coal. 1793 Ure Hist. Rutherglen 253 (Jam.) The most uncommon variety of till..is incumbent on a coarse iron-stone, or doggar. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Scar-doggers..the stone nodules in the alum rock burnt for making Roman cement. |
2. Geol. A sandy ironstone of the Lower Oolite; applied to part of the Jurassic series.
dogger-series, the series of strata resting upon the Alum Shale (Upper Lias), containing the dogger.
| 1822 G. Young Geol. Surv. Yorksh. (1828) 126 This..seam is only a few feet above the dogger. 1885 Lyell's Elem. Geol. xx. 311 In North-Western Germany..The Dogger, or Brown Jura, has dark-coloured clays and ironstones..it corresponds to the Lower Oolite. |
Add: [1.] b. Any large, more or less ovoid concretion, usu. of sandstone or limestone.
| 1876 H. B. Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales vii. 193 This formation..is remarkable for the quantity of hard siliceous rock which is bedded with it, and sometimes occurs in enormous concretions or ‘doggers’. 1894 ― Jurassic Rocks Brit. IV. i. 12 Concretionary masses of Sandstone or Doggers occur in the Midford and Northampton Sands. 1947 W. J. Arkell Geol. Oxf. vii. 106 Hill's brickyard..still shows a good section of..the sands of the Pectinatus Zone, with enormous sandstone doggers. 1974 J. E. Hemingway in Rayner & Hemingway Geol. & Min. Resources Yorks. vii. 167 In common with the Yorkshire Lias as a whole, the Lower Lias abounds with beds of both calcareous and sideritic concretions, both lithological types being locally known as ‘doggers’. |
▪ IV. dogger4 Austral.
(ˈdɒgə(r))
[f. dog n. + -er1.]
One who hunts dingoes.
| 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Oct. 20/4 Many of the doggers, prospectors and blockholders who make the connection [i.e. travel] long distances by camel. 1935 H. H. Finlayson Red Centre i. 15 The dogger and prospector follow the explorer. 1946 F. Davison Dusty xviii. 204 Ask an old dogger of the western stations. 1965 E. Troughton Furred Animals of Australia (ed. 8) 237 A Queensland ‘dogger’ who found it impossible to trap or poison an old-man dingo responsible for killing hundreds of sheep. |