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English Dictionary: driblet by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
driblet
n
  1. a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling
    Synonym(s): drop, drib, driblet
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dribblet \Drib"blet\, Driblet \Drib"let\, n. [From {Dribble}.]
      A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money
      in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.
  
               When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best
               securities were at an interest of twelve per cent.
                                                                              --Burke.
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