snotter

noun

1. A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
2. (countable, uncountable)The wattles of a turkeycock.
3. (Scotland, countable, uncountable)Snot; mucus.
4. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A handkerchief.

   “We had our regular rendezvous, […] where we refreshed ourselves with meat and drink, sung obscene and abominable songs […], instructed the younger members systematically in prigging (stealing,) concerted robberies, washed and valued "snotters" (handkerchiefs,) and disposed of them, besides the other practices of a nefarious and abandoned fraternity.”

5. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A pickpocket who steals handkerchiefs.

   “You're barely breaking even with the snotters stealing handkerchiefs in the square.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To snivel; to cry or whine.

   “Araund the woman her lile ans ſprawl'd on the hearth, ſome, whiting ſpeals, ſome, ſnottering and crying, and ya ruddy cheek'd lad threw on a bullen to make a loww, for its mother to find her loup.”

   “What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships?”

   “'Aaaaaah. and that's another thing, I want a home,' I snottered. What the hell was going on? I was an emotional wreck[…]”

2. (colloquial)To smack; to hit

   “'You snottered a sergeant, didn't you? My oh my! Clouting a police sergeant is something I've dreamed about for years.'”