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drabblers

drabblers is the plural of drabbler.

Meaning of drabbler

Noun

drabbler (plural drabblers)

  1. (historical) A piece of canvas laced to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth or more drop.
    • The next day, merrily pursuing our voyage, we came in sight of the island of Chaneph, where Pantagruel's ship could not arrive, the wind chopping about, and then failing us so that we were becalmed, and could hardly get ahead, tacking about from starboard to larboard, and larboard to starboard...1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick...

Questions about drabblers

What is drabblers the plural of?
Drabblers is the plural of drabbler.

Words near drabblers in the dictionary

  1. drabble
  2. drabble-tail
  3. drabble-tails
  4. drabbled
  5. drabbler
  6. drabblers
  7. drabbles
  8. drabbletail
  9. drabbletails
  10. drabbling
  11. drabby

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drabblers (page history and authors); drabbler (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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