dribletn.

/ˈdrɪblɪt/

Forms: Also dribblet, (perhaps transmission error) 1600s dribbet.

Etymology: < drib v. + -let suffix: association with dribble seems later.

a. ‘A small sum, odd money in a sum’ (Johnson).

ΚΠ

1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) iii. xxv. 107 We crave, and crave a longer Day, Then pay in Driblets, or else never pay.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 14) 914 The high rate..that divers live at, can be maintained by no dribblets.

1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XV. 41 They had received in little dribblets to the amount of ninety-five pounds.

1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 28 16 A tenant who had paid his last quarter's rent by driblets under pressure.

†b. esp. A small or petty debt. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > small debt

driblet1591

small debt1603

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xliii. cxxxvi. 369 And quite each other, all old debts and driblets... [margin] Driblets vsed for pettie recknings.

1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. C^v Ide set mine olde debts against my new driblets.

1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis xiv. 21 So strictly wer't thou Just to pay, Even to the driblet of a day.

1798 Sporting Mag. 11 104 Some other driblets, called debts of honour.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lviii. 151 A small mortgage and such like convenient but uninfluential driblets.

2. A petty or inconsiderable quantity or part of anything. by (in) driblets: in petty portions at a time, little by little.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum

parcelc1400

plack1530

dodkinc1555

triflec1595

denier1597

driblet1659

song1698

Flanders-fortune1699

pin money1702

doit1728

drab1828

picayune1838

sprat1883

shoestring1904

peanut1910

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα ii. xix. 243 Pittances..slowly payd by dribbets and with infinite delayes.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Dribblets (old word), small portions or pieces.

1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Driblet,..any small Quantity or Parcel of Money, or any thing else.

1832 Examiner 34/1 It is rumoured that the creation of peers is to be by dribblets. A drop-by-drop invigoration seems..absurd.

1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 501 A hundred weight of fish to be sold in driblets, for a few pence.

3. A small quantity or dribble (of liquid).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small

dropc1290

drewc1430

gutta1562

trickle1580

dribblea1682

sye1781

dreg1821

driblet1861

1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 141 A driblet of sour milk.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iii. 77 Every driblet of water seemed to be inseparably connected in their minds with a drop of brandy.

Compounds

driblet cone n. a cone produced by the successive ejections of small quantities of lava; a hornito.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun] > cone or peak

pike1555

puy1827

cone1830

hornito1830

monticule1830

cinder-cone1849

parasitic cone1863

mud cone1868

piton1886

driblet cone1888

sommac1910

shield1937

1888 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 135 32 The projectile process in the basalt-volcano..makes not cinder-cones, but dribblet-cones, 15 to 40 feet high, out of the projected masses, the falling driblets becoming plastered together.

1888 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 135 32 Such driblet-cones are of all angles from 30° to 90°.

1939 A. K. Lobeck Geomorphol. xix. 675 Where gases sputter out through the side of the dome, a spatter or driblet cone may be built up 10 to 12 feet above the ground.

1969 C. Ollier Volcanoes v. 58 Spatter may be erupted through a crack in the surface of a pahoehoe flow, and build up a small cone or spire of scoria and driblets. This is called a hornito or driblet cone. The term is usually restricted to small features perhaps 5 m high.

Derivatives

† ˈdriblet v. Obsolete (intransitive) to come in driblets.

ΚΠ

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iii. v. 276 Biting poverty..hardly to be relieved by those dribliting pittances.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	driblet
释义	dribletn. /ˈdrɪblɪt/ Forms: Also dribblet, (perhaps transmission error) 1600s dribbet. Etymology: < drib v. + -let suffix: association with dribble seems later. 1. a. ‘A small sum, odd money in a sum’ (Johnson). ΚΠ 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) iii. xxv. 107 We crave, and crave a longer Day, Then pay in Driblets, or else never pay. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 14) 914 The high rate..that divers live at, can be maintained by no dribblets. 1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XV. 41 They had received in little dribblets to the amount of ninety-five pounds. 1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 28 16 A tenant who had paid his last quarter's rent by driblets under pressure. †b. esp. A small or petty debt. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > small debt driblet1591 small debt1603 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xliii. cxxxvi. 369 And quite each other, all old debts and driblets... [margin] Driblets vsed for pettie recknings. 1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. C^v Ide set mine olde debts against my new driblets. 1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis xiv. 21 So strictly wer't thou Just to pay, Even to the driblet of a day. 1798 Sporting Mag. 11 104 Some other driblets, called debts of honour. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lviii. 151 A small mortgage and such like convenient but uninfluential driblets. 2. A petty or inconsiderable quantity or part of anything. by (in) driblets: in petty portions at a time, little by little. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum parcelc1400 plack1530 dodkinc1555 triflec1595 denier1597 driblet1659 song1698 Flanders-fortune1699 pin money1702 doit1728 drab1828 picayune1838 sprat1883 shoestring1904 peanut1910 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα ii. xix. 243 Pittances..slowly payd by dribbets and with infinite delayes. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Dribblets (old word), small portions or pieces. 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Driblet,..any small Quantity or Parcel of Money, or any thing else. 1832 Examiner 34/1 It is rumoured that the creation of peers is to be by dribblets. A drop-by-drop invigoration seems..absurd. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 501 A hundred weight of fish to be sold in driblets, for a few pence. 3. A small quantity or dribble (of liquid). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small dropc1290 drewc1430 gutta1562 trickle1580 dribblea1682 sye1781 dreg1821 driblet1861 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 141 A driblet of sour milk. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iii. 77 Every driblet of water seemed to be inseparably connected in their minds with a drop of brandy. Compounds driblet cone n. a cone produced by the successive ejections of small quantities of lava; a hornito. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun] > cone or peak pike1555 puy1827 cone1830 hornito1830 monticule1830 cinder-cone1849 parasitic cone1863 mud cone1868 piton1886 driblet cone1888 sommac1910 shield1937 1888 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 135 32 The projectile process in the basalt-volcano..makes not cinder-cones, but dribblet-cones, 15 to 40 feet high, out of the projected masses, the falling driblets becoming plastered together. 1888 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 135 32 Such driblet-cones are of all angles from 30° to 90°. 1939 A. K. Lobeck Geomorphol. xix. 675 Where gases sputter out through the side of the dome, a spatter or driblet cone may be built up 10 to 12 feet above the ground. 1969 C. Ollier Volcanoes v. 58 Spatter may be erupted through a crack in the surface of a pahoehoe flow, and build up a small cone or spire of scoria and driblets. This is called a hornito or driblet cone. The term is usually restricted to small features perhaps 5 m high. Derivatives † ˈdriblet v. Obsolete (intransitive) to come in driblets. ΚΠ 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iii. v. 276 Biting poverty..hardly to be relieved by those dribliting pittances. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1591
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