drap

«drap» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: drop, drop by — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

drop, drop by

part of speech

verb (dialect form of drop)

meaning for a pupil

To let fall, or to fall; in one sentence it means to come by for a visit. tree →

how it differs from today

A dialect form of "drop" used in Uncle Remus stories. Today we say "drop" or "drop by."

examples

• Brer Rabbit say he drap 'im. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• "Drip, drap, drop, Will the milking soon stop?" (Grimm's Fairy Stories) tree →
• Spose'n you drap roun' ter-morrer en take dinner wid me. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →

primary record

drop

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 30 (Torah 0, tales 30, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.4 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «drap» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.