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O.N. dragsa, vb., to trail, drag or carry something heavy.

dragsa [dragsa], sb., a slatternly, negligent woman, who trails her dress along, a draggletail; a “skowret” d. [L.Sc. scowry, adj., = scurvy, shabby]. Y., Fe. *dragsa, f. See drags, vb.

dragset [dragsət], adj., slatternly, having trailing garments while walking, esp. of a woman; dragset-like. Y., Fe. From *drags-; see drags, vb., and dragsa, sb.

dral [drāl], vb., to walk as if dragging oneself along; to idle about; saunter, to geng dralin; a dralin body Y. (Y^h.). No. drala, vb., id. In the sense of to speak, with slow utterance, dral, however, is Eng. drawl, vb.

drall [(draᶅ) dräᶅ], sb., splinter-bars or swingle-trees, belonging to a plough; collect. Conn. Really something dangling; see drall, vb. Cf. drill, sb.

drall [draᶅ, dräᶅ], vb., to dangle; idle about, to geng drallin aboot. Conn. Du. (Sandw.). No. dralla, vb., to saunter (behind); trip; Icel. dralla, vb., to lag behind. Cf. drill¹, vb.

draller [draᶅər, dräᶅər], sb., in a water-mill: a wooden block, one end of which rests on the upper millstone and is fastened by a string to the “shoe”: a wooden trough, through which the corn from the deep, funnel-shaped box, “de hopper”, runs down to the eye of the millstone. Yⁿ. “de draller” is set in motion by the turning of the millstone, and, by its continual striking against “the shoe”, ensures the steady descent of the corn. Hence the name, draller; really, the dangling, swinging one. draller is to be formally classed with drall, vb., and is a deriv. of the latter. Otherwise drall-, in this case, might poss. stand for an orig. *darl-; cf. No. darla, vb., to move; dangle, Fær. darla, vb., to hang dangling, with which draller,

acc. to the usage of the word, agrees fairly well.

drallet [draⁱᶅət, dräᶅət], adj., slovenly, negligent of appearance, esp. about the legs; he is very d.-like aboot de legs. Fe. Deriv. of drall, vb.

drals [dra‘ls], vb., to walk slowly and carelessly, as if dragging oneself, to geng dralsin. Nmⁿ. (N.Roe). Either a) derived from dral, vb. (q.v.), and, in that case, parallel to drats from *dratt-, or b) by metathesis from a form *drasl, and, in that case, = No. and Sw. dial. drasla, drassla, vb., to trail; drag, Icel. drasla, vb., to rush heedlessly (and hastily) along. Cf. drels, vb.

dralset [dra‘lsət] and more comm. dralsket [dra‘lskət, dräᶅᶊkət], adj., that moves slowly and lazily. Nmⁿ. (N.Roe). Deriv. of drals, vb. For the form dralsket, cf. dradsket, adj., from *dratt-. See drels(k)et and drolsket, adjs.

dramm [dram (dräm)], sb., tuft of wool, small piece of cloth or string, tied as a mark through a hole, made in horses’ and sheep’s ears. As a mark on a horse, a dramm is attached also to the mane or to the tail (Sa.). More rarely dremm [dræm]. Really tied mark? Is prob. the same word as Icel. drambr, m., stub; piece of knotty wool, etc. (E.J.).

dramm [dram], vb., to tie a mark, dramm, on a horse or on a sheep, to d. a horse, a sheep (a lug). Sa.

drang [draŋ], vb., to tie firmly, draw a knot firmly together, to d. tø [‘to’]. Sa.; Du. occas. A form with dropped i-mutation. O.N. drengja, vb., to tie (firmly); Icel. drengja, vb., to draw together; tie firmly. See dreng, vb., and drung, vb.

drasj, drass, sb., see drosj, sb.

dratl, drattel [draⁱtəl, dräƫəl, dräitəl], sb., a slow person who comes lagging behind. U. See dratl, vb.

dratl, drattel [draⁱtəl, dräƫəl], vb.,