Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
drip-cup .
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Examples
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Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels.
Babbit 2004
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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
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Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels.
Chapter 22 1922
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Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels.
Babbitt 1922
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Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels.
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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