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thaw-drop

thaw-drop noun: a drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.

Noun

thaw-drop (plural thaw-drops)

  1. A drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.
    • When she gave me one cold parting kiss upon my forehead, like a thaw-drop from the stone porch——it was a very frosty day——I felt so miserable and self-reproachful that I clung to her and told her it was my fault, I knew, that she could say good-bye so easily!1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
    • Down the steep bank led the narrow pathway, rendered exceeding slippery by the freezing of thaw-drops from the overhanging trees.1880, Cecilia Findlay, Cross purposes

Forms of thaw-drop

pluralthaw-drops

Questions about thaw-drop

What does thaw-drop mean?
Thaw-drop means a drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.
What part of speech is thaw-drop?
Thaw-drop is a noun.
What is the plural of thaw-drop?
The plural of thaw-drop is thaw-drops.

Words near thaw-drop in the dictionary

  1. thavils
  2. thaw
  3. thaw out
  4. thaw wind
  5. thaw winds
  6. thaw-drop
  7. thaw-drops
  8. Thawa
  9. thawab
  10. thawable
  11. thawabs

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