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Drib

noun
1.
A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid).  Synonyms: driblet, drop.  "A drop of each sample was analyzed" , "There is not a drop of pity in that man" , "Years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"






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"Drib" Quotes from Famous Books



... them fellows; and if we get a perquisite, it never amounts to much, for I seldom knew one that had money enough to treat as we took him up. These Britishers a'n't like us; they don't pay off in port and if the fellows get any thing in jail from the consul, it's by drib-drabs, that a'n't no good, for it all goes for liquor. And them criminals make a dead haul upon a black steward, as soon as he is locked up. But if these sympathizing fools follow up their bugbears about the treatment at the jail, they'll ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams

... it pretty hard for me," she said slowly. "This little drib of railroad stock is all that my girls have left out of what their father willed them. I want to save ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde



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