dreen

See also: Dreen

English

Noun

dreen (plural dreens)

1. (Appalachia) Alternative form of drain.
   • [1803, George Neville Ussher, The Elements of English Grammar‎, 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

• Ender, Rende, derne, ender, erned

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• draen
• droon
  • Droon (Eupen)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch *drone, from Old Dutch *drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʀeːn/
• Hyphenation: dreen
• Rhymes: -eːn

Noun

dreen ?

1. 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.