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Drib

//ˈdɹɪb// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A drop. obsolete

    "squandering his money in dribs to the poor"

  2. 2
    a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To cut off; chop off. transitive
  2. 2
    To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin. transitive
  3. 3
    To entice step by step. transitive

    "With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away."

  4. 4
    To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.

    "He who drives their bargains dribs a part."

  5. 5
    To shoot directly at short range. transitive
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  1. 6
    To shoot at a mark at short range. intransitive
  2. 7
    To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. transitive

    "Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]"

  3. 8
    To beat; thrash; drub. British, dialectal, transitive
  4. 9
    To scold. British, dialectal, transitive
  5. 10
    To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger. British, dialectal, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).

Etymology 2

From a variant of drip.

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