right of drip

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right of drip - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Drip \Drip\, n.
     1. A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which
        drips, or falls in drops.
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              The light drip of the suspended oar.  --Byron.
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     2. (Arch.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other
        horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is
        of such section as to throw off the rain water.
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     Right of drip (Law), an easement or servitude by which a
        man has the right to have the water flowing from his house
        fall on the land of his neighbor.
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