Meaning of drabble | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.
   transitive
2. To fish with a long line and rod.
   intransitive

Examples

“That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.”

“to drabble for barbels”

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