These are the meanings of the letters DORP when you unscramble them.
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Dorp (n.)
A hamlet.
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Drop (n.)
The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.
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Drop (n.)
That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
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Drop (n.)
Same as Gutta.
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Drop (n.)
Any small pendent ornament.
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Drop (n.)
Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something
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Drop (n.)
A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
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Drop (n.)
A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.
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Drop (n.)
A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
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Drop (n.)
A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.
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Drop (n.)
A drop press or drop hammer.
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Drop (n.)
The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
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Drop (n.)
Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
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Drop (n.)
The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.
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Drop (n.)
Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
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Drop (n.)
To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.
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Drop (n.)
To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.
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Drop (n.)
To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
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Drop (n.)
To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.
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Drop (n.)
To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
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Drop (n.)
To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
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Drop (n.)
To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
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Drop (n.)
To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
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Drop (v. i.)
To fall in drops.
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Drop (v. i.)
To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
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Drop (v. i.)
To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
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Drop (v. i.)
To fall dead, or to fall in death.
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Drop (v. i.)
To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
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Drop (v. i.)
To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
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Drop (v. i.)
To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
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Drop (v. i.)
To fall short of a mark.
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Drop (v. i.)
To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
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Prod (n.)
A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
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Prod (n.)
A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.
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Prod (n.)
A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd.
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Prod (v. t.)
To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.