drap

/ dræp /

noun

1. a Scot word for drop

Example Sentences

Take the time Little-Siebold, the apple researcher, helped identify a nearly 200-year-old Drap d’Or de Bretagne apple tree growing on Maine’s Verona Island—the only known example of the ancient apple living in North America.

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After he left, I wrapped myself, like Sonya Marmeladova, in a drap de dames shawl and lay all day on the couch, mulling this over.

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Mr. Drap, 43, could be seen recently assembling pieces of plywood around a twin mattress under a highway overpass, trying to build a shelter amid detritus left by a half dozen other homeless people.

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The Tap-RoomThis warl's a tap-room owre and owre     Whaur ilk ane tak's his caper Some taste the sweet, some drink the sour     As waiter Fate sees proper; Let mankind live, ae social core,     An drap a' selfish quar'ling, And when the Landlord ca's his score,     May ilk ane's clink be sterling.

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"You'll choke plumb to death afore ye ever gits a drap from me," averred Sam.

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