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Word: Dropper
Speech Type: Noun
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘a person who lets something drop’); dropper (sense 1) is first recorded in the late 19th century
ˈdrɒpə
a short glass tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a tiny hole at the other, for measuring out drops of medicine or other liquids
Short Definition:short glass tube with rubber bulb at one end and tiny hole at other, for measuring out drops of medicine
Examples:- oils sold in bottles with a rubber-tipped dropper
- an eye dropper
a light vertical stave in a fence, especially a lath used to separate the wires of a wire fence.
Short Definition:light vertical stave in fence
a subsidiary line or loop of filament attached to a main line or leader
Short Definition:subsidiary line or loop of filament attached to main line or leader
Examples:- a dropper line
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