dout v OED ~ v (1526-1841) now dial; EDD 1. To extinguish a fire; turn off an electric light.
   1896 J A Folklore ix, 21 ~ a contraction of 'do out,' to extinguish. 1907 MILLAIS 339 ~ the fire, to put out. 1937 DEVINE 18 ~ To put out ... afire or light. [1926] 1946 PRATT 176 "The Cachalot": The second oarsman snatched and shot / The piggin like a shuttlecock, / Bailing the swamping torrent out, / Or throwing sidelong spurts to dout / The flame. P 222-66 I'll go and dout [the electric light] now. T 391/2-67 The first thing he done then was hauled off his boot for to dout it, you know, full o' water—plenty of water there. 1979 POTTLE 95 But the fires of slander were not so handily 'douted,' and more fanning of the flames was soon to come from a new direction.

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