drant
English
Etymology
From Scots drant, draunt (“droning or drawling tone”), borrowed from Scottish Gaelic dranndan, draundan (“hum, buzzing, complaint, growl, snarl”), akin to Irish dranntan (“hum, buzzing, growl”).
Verb
drant (third-person singular simple present drants, present participle dranting, simple past and past participle dranted)
- (Scotland, dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To drawl; to drone.
Noun
drant (plural drants)
- (Scotland, dialectal) A droning tone.
References
- “drant” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).
Anagrams
- Arndt, trDNA