Definition of "drib"

drib¹

/ˈdɹɪb/

verb
third-person singular simple present dribs, present participle dribbing, simple past and past participle dribbed
1. (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
2. (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. (transitive) To entice step by step.
  Quotations
  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, page 32
4. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
  Quotations
  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: Printed for Jacob Tonson […]
5. (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
6. (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
7. (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
  Quotations
  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 […], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, sonnet 2, page 519
8. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
9. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal) To scold.
10. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.

drib²

/ˈdɹɪb/

noun
plural dribs
1. (obsolete) A drop.
  Quotations
  squandering his money in dribs to the poor
  a. 1772, Rupert Barber, An Answer to the Christmas-Box

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