Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient custom or law which required a proprietor to build in such a manner that the eaves-drop from his house or buildings should not fall on the land of his neighbor. It was the same as the urban servitude of the Romans, called
stillicide (stillicidium).
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Examples
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If it is not the eaves-drip upon the lower slopes,
Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses Thomas Hardy 1884
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Each village was isolated by its own 'march' of forest; each yeoman all but isolated by the 'eaves-drip,' or green lane round his farm.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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