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drib

verb
/ˈdɹɪb/

Etymology

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”).

  1. inherited from *drepaną✻
  2. inherited from drepan
  3. inherited from drepen

Definitions

  1. To cut off

    To cut off; chop off.

  2. To cut off little by little

    To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.

  3. To entice step by step.

    • 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. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. To appropriate unlawfully

      To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.

      • He who drives their bargains dribs a part.

    2. To shoot directly at short range.

    3. To shoot at a mark at short range.

    4. To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.

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

    5. To beat

      To beat; thrash; drub.

    6. To scold.

    7. To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.

    8. A drop.

      • squandering his money in dribs to the poor

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Derived

dribber

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA