Meaning of send to dorse | Babel Free

Definitions

To throw (a person) onto their back; to knock out.

idiomatic, obsolete, slang, transitive

Examples

“a. 1823, Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.”

CEFR level