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Dribbling   /drˈɪbəlɪŋ/  /drˈɪblɪŋ/   Listen
Dribbling

noun
1.
The propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks.  Synonym: dribble.






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"Dribbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... with an armful of wood that he took into the dining hall. As they passed there was scarcely a nod of greeting. A surly pair, I thought. After this smoke issued from the chimney, and other men, one by one from other huts, came dribbling out into the day, until altogether we had counted seven. The six now before us, after make-shift splashes in the basins beside their doors, went as the chap with the wood had gone; and shortly we heard sounds of knives and forks ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... in some bog or other, perhaps; just a little dribbling stream oozing out from among roots and mire, and it continually ...
— Rollo's Museum • Jacob Abbott

... still. He felt, rather than heard, a figure limp by and steal across the gully. A slight sound of a little loose earth dribbling reached him a moment later from the opposite bank of the gully. Then, after a long pause, the arms about him relaxed. Charles Hannaford ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Dribbling" :   soccer, actuation, association football, hoops, double dribble, propulsion, basketball, basketball game



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