dribber

English

Etymology

drib +‎ -er

Noun

dribber (plural dribbers)

1. (obsolete) One who dribs; an archer who shoots weakly or badly.
   • 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC:

     he shall become, of a fair archer, a stark squirter and dribber

References

• “dribber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.