A ding or blow on the face. “A dowse on the blubber-chops of my friend the baronet” means a setting down, a snubbing.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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