drein

English

Noun

drein (plural dreins)

  1. Obsolete form of drain.

Verb

drein (third-person singular simple present dreins, present participle dreining, simple past and past participle dreined)

  1. Obsolete form of drain.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for drein in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Breton

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdʁɛjn/

Noun

drein f pl

  1. Plural form of draen.

Norman

Etymology

Old French drain, variant of derrain (“last”).

Pronunciation
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Adjective

drein m

  1. (Jersey) last

Derived terms
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