[ˈdrɒpə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a short glass tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a tiny hole at the other, for measuring out drops of medicine or other liquids
(e.g: oils sold in bottles with a rubber-tipped dropper)

- a light vertical stave in a fence, especially a lath used to separate the wires of a wire fence

- a subsidiary line or loop of filament attached to a main line or leader
(e.g: a dropper line)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘a person who lets something drop’); dropper is first recorded in the late 19th century