DOGGER, in the English alum works, a name given by the workmen to a sort of stone found in the same mines with the true alum rock, and containing some alum, though not near so much as the right kind. The county of York, which abounds greatly with the true alum-rock, affords also a very considerable quantity of these doggers; and, in some places, they approach so much to the nature of the true rock, that they are wrought to advantage.