drib
nounEtymology From a variant of drip.
1
Obsolete A drop.
- squandering his money in dribs to the poora. 1772, Rupert Barber, An Answer to the Christmas-Box:
- Derived terms
- dribs and drabs, dribble?
drib
verb/ˈdɹɪb/
Etymology From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).
10 senses
- 1To cut off; chop off.
- 2To cut off little by little; cheat by small and…
- 3To entice step by step.
- 4To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
- 5To shoot directly at short range.
- 6To shoot at a mark at short range.
- 7To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
- 8To beat; thrash; drub.
- 9To scold.
- 10To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
1
To cut off; chop off.
2
To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3
To entice step by step.
- With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away.a. 1701, [John] Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Art of Love. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 32:
4
To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
- He who drives their bargains dribs a part.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Charles Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Seventh Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
5
Archery, Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Military, Politics, Sports, War To shoot directly at short range.
6
Archery, Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Military, Politics, Sports, War To shoot at a mark at short range.
7
Archery, Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Military, Politics, Sports, War To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
- Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 2, page 519:
- Derived terms
- dribber