dropping
/ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/ noun A2- Something dropped; a droplet.
- A piece of animal excrement; dung. · a rabbit dropping
- The act of something that drops or falls.
Plural droppings
From the library
“Very well,” returned Dantès, dropping the stool and sitting on it as if he were in reality mad.
She appeared to be dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and after dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers.
“It’s this as has brought me, good gentlemen,” she said, dropping another curtsey; “a gold wedding ring in the Brixton Road.
“I wouldn’t have the Scotland Yarders know it for the world,” he cried, dropping into his chair; “I have chaffed them so much that they would never have let me hear the end of it.
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