Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contrivance devised by Sir William Thomson, and used particularly in the measurement of the electrical potential of the atmosphere.
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Examples
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I wasn't excited about it, but I did go fishing today -- not because I thought I'd catch anything but because if you keep pacing back and forth from the fridge to the television, you start to feel an awful lot like a gerbil going from the toilet-paper tube to the water-dropper, which can be depressing.
Finally: In Between 1999
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The following account of the one in Canton is taken from the "Chinese Repository," Volume XX, Page 430: "The clepsydra is called the 'copper-jar water-dropper.'
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