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Definition of Driblets
1. driblet [n] - See also: driblet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Driblets
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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