Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as drip-cup.

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Examples

  • Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels.

    Babbit 2004

  • We learned not to object when the ice-box was set up in the hall so near the grate that the drip-pan had to be emptied every hour, and the iceman had to come twice a day.

    At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

  • Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels.

    Chapter 22 1922

  • Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels.

    Babbitt 1922

  • Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Soon the drip-pan was full and then the water began trickling over the floor.

    The Curlytops and Their Pets or Uncle Toby's Strange Collection Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • I slush them around to clean them, but they never notice that, and I stand them up high and dry in the drip-pan.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • Then I go in after the girls, and they quiet down the babies in the drip-pan; and then the mothers I bring out, and the boys and the fathers.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • I save the babies first, I slush them around to clean them, but they never notice that, and I stand them up high and dry in the drip-pan.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • Then I go in after the girls, and they quiet down the babies in the drip-pan; and then the mothers I bring out, and the boys and the fathers.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

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