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Driblet   Listen
noun
Driblet, Dribblet  n.  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. "When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Driblet" Quotes from Famous Books



... wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

... question'd thy supreme decree. Thou didst his gracious reign prolong, Even in thy saints' and angels' wrong, His fellow-citizens of immortality: For twelve long years of exile borne, Twice twelve we number'd since his blest return: So strictly wert thou just to pay, Even to the driblet of a day. Yet still we murmur and complain, The quails and manna should no longer rain; Those miracles 'twas needless to renew; The chosen stock has now the promised land ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden



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