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thaw-drops

thaw-drops is the plural of thaw-drop.

Meaning of thaw-drop

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

Questions about thaw-drops

What is thaw-drops the plural of?
Thaw-drops is the plural of thaw-drop.

Words near thaw-drops in the dictionary

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

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