drop
noun
a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
had dropt
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past perfectof drop.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I. Neither of us had dropt a tear.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
When in 1874 the most sanguine prophecies were fulfilled, the Dukes could not have been more surprised if Moses and the Prophets had dropt from the clouds to chide their unbelief.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
She had dropt her work, and sat with her head thrown back, in the same attitude that I had seen several times before, when she seemed to be listening to an imperfectly distinguished sound.
From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The fust lady wot cum in had dropt a plume outer her hat.
From The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
But he had dropt his hat and his second pistol in his flight, and so he was traced and seized before he could leap from the wall.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
