slabber

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In modern French bave means "drivel," "slabbering," and the verb baver "to slabber," but the bib is now called bavette.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Then he was taken with a drauling, or slabbering at his mouth, which slabber sometimes would hang at his mouth well nigh half-way down to the ground.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

Removing the slabber which was gathered in his beard and at his mouth, he shouted: "Put police on you will I."

From My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People by Evans, Caradoc

The large solid cake is cut with wires by hand or by a slabber into slabs of any desired size.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.

To DRABLE, DRAIBLE, v. a. to slabber; to befoul.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander