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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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\Drib"blet\, Driblet \Drib"let\, n. [From {Dribble}.]
A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money
in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

      When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best
      securities were at an interest of twelve per cent.
                                               --Burke.

 

 

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