Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pan or receptacle to receive the waste water from a water-cooler.

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Examples

  • In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

  • It was the treasure-box, sure enough, occupying a snug little cavern, along with an empty powder-keg, a couple of guns in leather cases, two or three pairs of old moccasins, a leather belt, and some other rubbish well soaked with the water-drip.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

  • This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

  • For twenty years Karp had been married to his idea of public law, trying to build something fine, or at least to keep the memory of something fine alive, against the slow water-drip erosion of stupidity and moral rot.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • For twenty years Karp had been married to his idea of public law, trying to build something fine, or at least to keep the memory of something fine alive, against the slow water-drip erosion of stupidity and moral rot.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • For twenty years Karp had been married to his idea of public law, trying to build something fine, or at least to keep the memory of something fine alive, against the slow water-drip erosion of stupidity and moral rot.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • Shadow became giant beveled masonry, tier on tier, criss-crossed and scarred by the iced cataracts of a billion years -- no sound but the raucous scream of the lone eagle, the hollow hush of the far River, the tinkling of the water-drip freezing as it fell.

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • It was the treasure-box, sure enough, occupying a snug little cavern, along with an empty powder-keg, a couple of guns in leather cases, two or three pairs of old moccasins, a leather belt, and some other rubbish well soaked with the water-drip.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

  • In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

  • This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

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