free-drop

1 of 2

noun

1

: a dropping (as of supplies) from airplanes to the ground without parachutes

2

: something dropped by free-drop

free-drop

2 of 2

transitive verb

"

: to drop (as supplies) by a free-drop

lumber and a few other items were free-dropped from 100 feet

—P. A. Siple

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