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English
Noun
dreen (plural dreens)
- (Appalachia) Alternative form of drain
, Galen H. Fay, page 95:Dreen for drain.]
1947, Ben Williams, A House Divided, Chicago Review Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 366:Tony, Pa moved to Mike's Run, it is a little dreen runs into Patterson crick Mr. Cavett will tell you where.
2003, Mike Bottini, Trail Guide to the South Fork, Harbor Electronic Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:[…] the northern shoreline of Big Fresh Pond and the upper reaches of an unnamed brook known locally as the ale-wife dreen.
Anagrams
Limburgish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Dutch *drone, from Old Dutch *drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu.
Pronunciation
Noun
dreen ?
- A drone; a male bee.
Further reading
- H. Crompvoets, H.H.A. van de Wijngaard, Woordenboek van de Limburgse dialecten, II-6, Volume 2, Van Gorcum (1991), page 5.