sottering

Doubtless these were intended for disguise; but, as the day promised to be warm, he made a most unseasonable figure. "Well, Davie," said he, "is this no a bonny morning? Here is a day that looks the way that a day ought to. This is a great change of it from the belly of my haystack; and while you were there sottering and sleeping I have done a thing that maybe I do over seldom."

Robert Louis Stevenson - David Balfour, Second Part : Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona

Doubtless these were intended for disguise; but, as the day promised to be warm, he made a most unseasonable figure. "Well, Davie," said he, "is this no a bonny morning? Here is a day that looks the way that a day ought to. This is a great change of it from the belly of my haystack; and while you were there sottering and sleeping I have done a thing that maybe I do very seldom."

Robert Louis Stevenson - Catriona

Doubtless these were intended for disguise; but, as the day promised to be warm, he made a most unseasonable figure. "Well, Davie," said he, "is this no' a bonny morning? Here is a day that looks the way that a day ought to. This is a great change of it from the belly of my haystack; and while you were there sottering and sleeping I have done a thing that maybe I do over seldom."

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 11