dreen
See also: Dreen
English
Noun
dreen (plural dreens)
- (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.