drippern.
/ˈdrɪpə/ 1. He who or that which drips; a wet, rainy day.
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dripper1686
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xii. 59 Of 261 days there are found 140 Drippers.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xiii. 70 Of 87 Full Moons there appear..Seventy Five Drippers.
2. A pen in which sheep are put after they have been dipped, having a floor sloping towards the bath, so that the dip which falls off the sheep flows back into the bath.
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1886 C. Scott Sheep-farming 145 The dripper of a bath consists of a couple of pens capable of holding from thirty to forty sheep, set upon a water-tight floor.
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