Definition of Driblets

1. Noun. (plural of driblet) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Driblets

1. driblet [n] - See also: driblet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Driblets

dribbed
dribber
dribbers
dribbing
dribble
dribbled
dribbler
dribblers
dribbles
dribblet
dribblets
dribblier
dribbling
dribbly
driblet
driblets (current term)
dribs
dribs and drabs
drice
drices
dricksie
dricksier
dried
dried-out
dried-up
dried alum
dried apricot
dried fruit
dried human albumin
dried human plasma protein fraction

Literary usage of Driblets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"He charged each of them shake hands together, And when they met, to say, Good morrow, brother; Thus each quit other all old debts aud driblets, And set the ..."

2. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1905)
"Booth, 6 WB 845, 3 De Gex & J. 119, that a mortgagee is not bound to receive his money by driblets, does not apply to a sale of part of the property, ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1901)
"Turn to the city grants for the present year, and you find $32500 appropriated for the support of orphans, $24000 for the insane, and $2200 in driblets for ..."

4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"driblets pile up the fantastic driblet-cone, which has no crater but simply a hole for the projection of lava in small liquid masses, drops, driblets, ..."

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