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English-Thai Dictionary

dropper

N ที่ หยอด  ti-yord

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DROPPER

DROPPER Drop "per, n.

 

1. One who, or that which, drops. Specif. : (Fishing ) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.

 

2. A dropping tube.

 

3. (Mining )

 

Defn: A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.

 

4. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dropper

drop per |ˈdräpər ˈdrɑpər | noun 1 a short glass tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a tiny hole at the other, for measuring out drops of medicine or other liquids. 2 (in full dropper line ) Fishing a subsidiary line or loop of filament attached to a main line or leader. ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (in the sense a person who lets something drop ); sense 1 is first recorded in the late 19th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dropper

drop |per |ˈdrɒpə | noun 1 a short glass tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a tiny hole at the other, for measuring out drops of medicine or other liquids. 2 Austral. /NZ & S. African a light vertical stave in a fence, especially a lath used to separate the wires of a wire fence. 3 Fishing a subsidiary line or loop of filament attached to a main line or leader. ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (in the sense a person who lets something drop ); sense 1 is first recorded in the late 19th cent.

 

Duden Dictionary

Dropper

Drop per Substantiv, maskulin , der |Dr o pper |der Dropper; Genitiv: des Droppers, Plural: die Dropper Dropshot

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dropper

dr p per 名詞 C 1 落とす人 [物 ].2 (目薬などの )点滴器 .