a Dutch fishing vessel navigated in the German ocean. It is generally employed in the herring fishery; being equipped with two masts, viz. a main-mast and a mizen-mast, and somewhat resembling a ketch. See the Plates at the article SHIP.

DOGTERS, 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.