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dropt

[ dropt ]

verb

, Archaic.
  1. a simple past tense and past participle of drop.


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Example Sentences

A fellow was dropt down in the bucket, and soon bawled out from the bottom, "I have found the punch-ladle, so wind me up."

The little fellow, when nine or ten years of age, was fond of drumming, and once dropt his drum-stick into the draw-well.

A drift of thought—an elevation of style, is observable in their public speaking which is dropt in private conversation.

Surprised and ashamed, his sublimity suddenly forsook him; his arms dropt, and his hands were slipt into his waistcoat pockets.

The if almost dropt inarticulated: but he added—'I shall make some further enquiries before I venture to say any more.'

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