drap

/ dræp /

noun

1. a Scot word for drop

Example Sentences

After he left, I wrapped myself, like Sonya Marmeladova, in a drap de dames shawl and lay all day on the couch, mulling this over.

From The New Yorker

Mr. Drap, 43, could be seen recently assembling pieces of plywood around a twin mattress under a highway overpass, trying to build a shelter amid detritus left by a half dozen other homeless people.

From New York Times

The Tap-RoomThis warl's a tap-room owre and owre     Whaur ilk ane tak's his caper Some taste the sweet, some drink the sour     As waiter Fate sees proper; Let mankind live, ae social core,     An drap a' selfish quar'ling, And when the Landlord ca's his score,     May ilk ane's clink be sterling.

From The Guardian

"You'll choke plumb to death afore ye ever gits a drap from me," averred Sam.

From Project Gutenberg

Ballantine’s beautiful song of Providential care tells us that “Ilka blade o’ grass keps it’s ain drap o’ dew.”

From Project Gutenberg