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(Gherdëina, Badiot)fountain, trough(narrow container for animals (and people) to drink from)
Bever pra droch. ― To drink from the trough.
droch dal bestiam ― drinking trough for the cattle
Usage notes
The word droch refers to a water trough, thus a long container mainly intended as a water source for cattle and for passers-by. A fountain in a town center that does not have the shape of a trough is usually referred to as funtana.
c.800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 134d3
Ɔ·riris-siu .i. ar·troídfe{a}-siu inna droch daíni, a Dǽ, dia n-anduch, air is fechtnach a n-andach mani erthroítar húa Día.
You will bind, i.e. you will restrain the evil men, O God, from their iniquity, for their iniquity is prosperous if they are not restrained by God.
c.845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 217a
Memmbrum naue, droch dub! Ó, ní epur na haill.
New parchment, bad ink! Oh, I say nothing more.
Usage notes
Forms a compound with a following noun and is thus never inflected on its own.