drine
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English dringe, from Old English geþring, geþryngc. Cognate with dialectal English dring.
Noun
drine
- crowd
- 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Aar's neer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.
- There is no fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 111