drabble

To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.

That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.

To fish with a long line and rod.

to drabble for barbels

A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.

A surname from Old English.