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120 to walk slowly and heavily, to come lagging behind, to geng (come) ; a body. Also [dräitəl]. and dratla,, ; of  dratta, , to walk heavily and slowly.

drats [drats], vb., to move heavily and slowly, to shuffle along, to geng , to come lagging behind. of dratta,, to move with a heavy, slow gait. dratch, , to linger.
 * to come and

dratset [dratsət],, 1) that walks heavily and slowly. 2) clumsy; careless. 3) negligent in dress, with sagging clothes; also with untidy shoes or boots. 4) of shabby, unattractive appearance. of ,

dratsi [dratsi],, one who walks heavily and slowly. As a tabu-name (sea-term), used by fishermen, the word denotes otter,  from the way in which the otter drags its tail when going over the ground. dratthali,, as a nickname for the fox, also and, other tabu-names for the otter with a similar root-meaning. —
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draught [drāχt],, false keel, strap on the keel of a boat, keel-d., = drag,  Anglicised form. See ,

drav [drāv],, 1) drift,  sea-weed floating on the surface of the water; Opposite to  (substances  the surface of the water; ). 2) shoal of young fish, young herring;. — draf,, refuse; particles; dust. — See ,

dravin [drāvɩn, drāvən],, decomposed, in a state of decomposition, 1) of meat, fish: half-rotten; sour; d. fish;, d. milk, turned milk (see Introd. IV, § 21). Also . 2) drenched, d. weet [‘wet’]; de claes [‘clothes’] is d.; 3) : out of  sorts; indolent; indisposed; in a tiresome, peevish mood; du’s uncon [‘very’] d. de day [‘to-day’]; sense of decomposed mass; draf,, refuse, and drafna, , to be dissolved into small parts. ( drafna, inter alia: to become rotten); dravin,, moist, and “drav-vátur”, drenched; drav-, intensive prefix in adjectives, denoting decomposed state, : dravroten, putrid. With  2  the phrase “as weet [‘wet’] as  [draf].” , , grains; draff, has arisen from draf, , but has assimilated to draff,
 * drafinn,, of “draf” in the

draw [drâ], used in some meanings, from “draw”, from an older drag; thus: 1) in fishermen’s tabu-language at sea: halyard, =  drag,  (d. 9 in Aa.). 2) a place on the shore over which a boat is drawn from and to the boat-shed, = drag, (d. 6 in Aa.); [‘where’] is dy [‘your’] boat’s d.? ., , and “draught”,

draw [drâ],, both = “to draw” and “to pull”; used in several phrases, handed down from Norn and from (draga),  deviating from — 1)  : to d. corn, to draw some sheaves out of a stack of corn; to d. fish, to catch fish with a hand-line,  draga fisk; to d. de milk (ut) o’ de coo, to milk the cow ( of milking at an irregular time; see ,  II 1 a), also “to d. de coo”;  dra koa, to milk the cow; — to d. de (ane’s) , , see , , ; to d. ane’s , to make one’s blood flow. 2)  , of a current: to move, run in a certain direction; de tide is drawin’ in de firt’, the tide is running up the firth ;  draga in the sense of to move in a certain direction