(1) Jorge Rodriguez clambers on to a stool in a grittyMexico City neighbourhood, logs on to a computer, checks his email, googles awhile, then with a pencil and jotter starts transcribing parts of a New York Times article translated into Spanish.
(2) The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses.
(3) Let's be frank, we could give the small child out of dance troupe Diversity – the one whom they keep dropping on his head – a magnifying glass and jotter and get him to crack this one by nightfall.
(4) Schoolbooks, jotters, sheets of music and road safety leaflets litter the hall floor while a single doll – its face blackened and cracked – lies on a cot inside one classroom.
(5) Meeting Gomez alongside her three co-stars (I see my jotter contains the unfortunate notation: "Jailbait Apocalypse!
(6) It’s a durable blue jotter filled with 20 years of Out of Joint records, all copied out by hand: writers’ royalties, touring schedules, weekly audience numbers.
Jowter
Definition:
(n.) A mounted peddler of fish; -- called also jouster.