slabber

Example Sentences

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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

All the more expensive equipment that is necessary is a crutcher, a tank to hold the lye, frames, a slabber or cutting table, and a press.

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.

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

Look at him there, the muckle slabber," and she pointed to Gilmour, who was standing with a red-lowering, downcast face, "look at him!

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

You think you're in the country, where great lubberly brothers slabber and kiss one another when they meet, like a call of sergeants.

From The Way of the World by Congreve, William