drabble

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

2. (intransitive)To fish with a long line and rod.

   “to drabble for barbels”

noun

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

name

1. A surname from Old English.