drib

Meanings

1. To cut off; chop off.
2. To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. To entice step by step.
4. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
5. To shoot directly at short range.
6. To shoot at a mark at short range.
7. To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
8. To beat; thrash; drub.
9. To scold.
10. To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.

1. A drop.

Etymology

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).