drap

/ (dræp) /

noun, verb

a Scot word for drop

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schlep

to say or do hesitantly or awkwardly

to fold or wind around something

to carry; lug

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Words nearby drap

dramshop, drancy, drang, drangway, drank, drap, drape, drape forming, drapeau, draper, drapery

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Example sentences from the Web for drap

No doubt they were "drap" dumplings, because they went to the bottom of the kettle and staid there until we fished them out.
A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre|Matilda Sager
Drap in yo' nickel, I say, an' ef yer ain't got a nickel, come up an' let's pray fur yer!
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches|Ruth McEnery Stuart
Sometimes we'd make a mistake an' drap three seeds instead o' two an' if we did dis too often it meant de strap fum de overseer.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States|Work Projects Administration
But whenst ye would face round agin, they'd drap down ahint the aidge o' the rock.
'way Down In Lonesome Cove|Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

No, the devil a drap would they taste, unless it was wid his honor's own self, by the holy poker!
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.|Pierce Egan