Word Meanings - DRABBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.

Related words: (words related to DRABBLE)

• DRABBLER
  A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
• DRAGGLE
  To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench. (more info) Etym:
• CLOAKING
  1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype. 2. The material of which of which cloaks are made.
• DRABBLE
  To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.
• CLOAKROOM
  A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
• CLOAKEDLY
  In a concealed manner.
• DRAGGLE-TAIL
  A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
• DRABBLE-TAIL
  A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.
• DRAGGLE-TAILED
  Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.
• BEFOUL
  Etym: 1. To make foul; to soil. 2. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
• CLOAK
  bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtik origin and the same word as E. 1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women. 2. That which conceals;
• BEDRAGGLE
  To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.
• UNCLOAK
  To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.
• BEDRABBLE
  To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.
• DISCLOAK
  To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. B. Jonson.