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Definition of Drabbler
1. n. A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
Definition of Drabbler
1. Noun. (nautical) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth or more drop. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drabbler
1. an attachment to a sail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drabbler
Literary usage of Drabbler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sailing Ships and Their Story: The Story of Their Development from the by Edward Keble Chatterton (1915)
"But below the bonnet was now laced on another called a drabbler. Instead of
reefing as nowadays by taking in the foot of the sail, ..."
2. The Library Magazine (1887)
"The term bonnet applied to a thing worn at the font advises j us of an ironical
derivative. But of I "drabbler" the etymology is obvious. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... drabbler, an additional piece of canvas, laced to the bottom of a bonnet of
a sail. Greene, Looking Glasse, iv. 1 (1328) ; p. 184, col. ..."
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