a tray, sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips, as under a beer tap, sump, plant pot, etc
She emptied the beer dregs from the drip trays into the slop bucket.
Plants must never be allowed to sit in a drip tray full of water for long.
An inner moulding with built-in drip trays beneath the sumps imparts a very neatappearance to the entire machinery space and has obvious benefits for cleaning.
Examples of 'drip tray' in a sentence
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Gas makes cleaning simple with no hot dirty ashes and drip trays collect the mess.
The Sun (2013)
There are no hot, dirty ashes to empty out and drip trays collect the mess.
The Sun (2011)
A drip tray runs the length of the cooking area, so cleaning wasn't arduous.