dreen

Alternative form of drain.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of drain.
    • Dreen for drain. - [1803, George Neville Ussher, The Elements of English Grammar, Galen H. Fay, page 95:
    • Tony, Pa moved to Mike's Run, it is a little dreen runs into Patterson crick Mr. Cavett will tell you where. - 1947, Ben Williams, A House Divided, Chicago Review Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 366:
    • […]the northern shoreline of Big Fresh Pond and the upper reaches of an unnamed brook known locally as the ale-wife dreen. - 2003, Mike Bottini, Trail Guide to the South Fork, Harbor Electronic Publishing, →ISBN, page...

Forms

dreens