dribbing

Verb

drib (third-person singular simple present dribs, present participle dribbing, simple past and past participle dribbed)

1. (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
2. (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. (transitive) To entice step by step.
   • With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away.a. 1701, [John] Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Art of Love. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 32
4. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
   • He who drives their bargains dribs a part.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Charles Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Seventh Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...
5. (transitive) To shoot directly at short range.
6. (intransitive) To shoot at a mark at short range.

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