Thaw-drop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Thaw-drop is a noun meaning A drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.
Meaning
A drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.
Example Sentences
Down the steep bank led the narrow pathway, rendered exceeding slippery by the freezing of thaw-drops from the overhanging trees.
I was rewarded at last, upon choosing one, by the sight of what might be described as the dot of an exclamation mark leaving its ordinary position to glide down very fast - a jot faster than the thaw-drop it raced.
From a rhombus of saffron light in the middle distance the notes of a bamboo flute, cool and blue as the thaw-drops on the edge of a glacier, mournful and languishing crotchets, crept toward them on the gently stirring air.
When she gave me one cold parting kiss upon my forehead, like a thaw-drop from the stone porch——it was a very frosty day——I felt so miserable and self-reproachful that I clung to her and told her it was my fault, I knew, that she could say good-bye so easily!
Word Forms
- thaw-drops
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include snow, icicle, deposition, meltoff, driftlet, stillicide.
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