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Such a mere handful is of course easily "douted." An extinguisher "douts" a candle; the heel of a boot "douts" a match thrown down. But the exact definition of "dout" is to smother, or extinguish by beating.
At last Reddin went to the kitchen door. 'Where's that tea? he asked. 'Tay? 'Yes, you fool! 'I know nothing about no tay. 'I said you were to make some. 'Not to me. 'And toast. 'I've douted the fire. He had just done so. 'Look here, my man, there's a missus at Undern now. You please her or go. She tells me what she wants. I tell you. You do it.
By midsummer, 1775, George Rogers Clark, a remarkably enterprising and independent young pioneer, was "engrossing all the land he could" in Kentucky. Upon his return to Virginia, as he relates, he "found there was various oppinions Respecting Henderson claim. many thought it good, others douted whether or not Virginia coud with propriety have any pretentions to the cuntrey."
In the days when wood fires were universal, as the wood burned, quantities of a fine white powder or ash collected, which at intervals, when the servant cleaned the hearth, was swept up into a corner. At night, if any embers remained glowing, a few shovelfuls of this heap of white ash were thrown over them before retiring, and so the fire was "douted."
The forester straightened himself, offered an arm to each of the ladies, and led them home. Lights shone from the parlour window of "Ye Swanne" that night long after they were douted in the other houses of Wood Street.
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