Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To stumble.
  • To affect with staggers.
  • noun In golf, a ball that stots or bounces: generally used in some such expression as ‘a good stotter,’ meaning a ball that possesses resiliency and bounces well upon being dropped on a hard, flat surface.

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  • Excellent (Scots).

    "Whit a stotter!"

    November 27, 2007