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Definition of Dribs
1. drib [v] - See also: drib
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dribs
Literary usage of Dribs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"See dribs. Draft, sb. a drawing, or picture. Drafts, sb. cart-traces made of chain.
... dribs and drabs, sb. small amounts. 'He pays it in dribs and drain. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland by William Dickinson (1880)
"See dribs. Draft, si. a drawing, or picture. Drafts, sb. cart-traces made of chain.
... dribs and drabs, sb. small amounts. 'He pays it in dribs and drabs. ..."
3. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"See dribs. Draft, sb. a drawing, or picture. Drafts, sb. cart-traces made of chain.
... dribs and drabs, sb. small amounts. 'Ho pays it in dribs and drabs. ..."
4. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.—Dryden. Rhymes retailed in dribs.—Swift.
} A chap, chilblain. If a man's brains were in his heels, were't not in ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"'—Wilts Arch. Mag. xxi. 229. Dredge, Drodge. Barley and oats grown together.—SW
dribs-and-Drabs. Odds and ends. ' All in dribs and drabs, ' all in tatters. ..."
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