Crossword-Solution: EAVESDRIP
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| water dropping from eaves | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with EAVESDRIP (3)
EAVESDRIP, or EAVESDROP, that width of ground around a house or building which receives the rain water dropping from the eaves.
The law of Eavesdrip has had its equivalent in the Roman _stillicidium_, which prohibited building up to the very edge of an estate.
STILLICIDE, stil'i-s[=i]d, _n._ an urban servitude among the Romans, where a proprietor was not allowed to build to the extremity of his estate, but must leave a space regulated by the charter by which the property was held, so as not to throw the eavesdrop on the land of his neighbour--same as _Eavesdrip_.--_n._ STILLICID'IUM, a morbid trickling.
Quotes with EAVESDRIP (1)
The word 'eavesdropper' originally referred to people who, under the pretence of taking in some fresh air, would stand under the 'eavesdrip' of their house - from which the collected raindrops would fall - in the hopes of catching any juicy tid-bits of information that might come their way from their neighbour's property.