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Rh drev [drē$ə$v],, in ; see ,

drevl, drevel [drævəl],, to walk badly and heedlessly, to geng ; , [dræfəl] is reported from  in sense of to drag, slouch, to walk in a dragging manner, of a slovenly person; to geng. — *drefla. drevla,, to idle; to dawdle; dravla,, to work slowly and carelessly, also “drivla”,, to idle; to saunter; dawdle. — ,

drevlet [drævlət],, careless in one’s gait, a d. body. of ,

†dribbins [drɩb(b)ins],  thrashing; drubbing. to be classed with dribb,, a push; a blow, but might also be a form of “drubbing”.

dridl, driddel,, see , , and ,

drift [drɩft],, drift; speed, may be partly drift, dript,, partly drift, See the compounds , ,

drigl, drigel (dregl, dregel) [drɩgəl, dregəl],, to shuffle along; to move slowly and indolently; to geng . drigla, , to drag oneself along. — The word is also rather used in the sense of to walk through mud and mire with sagging clothes, and is then most  draggle, draigle,   , = draggled (draigled).


 * drikk,, see *.

drill [drɩᶅ],, = : splinter-bars or swingle-trees, belonging to a plough. See $w$,

drill$w$ [drɩᶅ, drəl],, to lag behind, dragging in one’s gait, to com’ behint: and  [drɩᶅ]; to move indolently, dully; to work without will or energy, to geng aboot de wark [‘work’]: [drəl]. Parallel form to, ; and drila,  dríla, , to walk heavily and indolently; to loiter. — An Norn-form, , ending in -andi: * [drɩᶅ··andɩ·], dangling; dropping (behind), is preserved in an old riddle from Unst, about the cow: comes one comes dangling behind (the cow’s tail). the use of the verb “dralla”, regarding the cow’s tail, in Gest the Blind’s riddle about the cow (in Hervarar Saga). — ,

drill$1$ [drɩl],, to upset; knock over, to d. onyting [‘anything’ = something] ower; drilla,, to twist; turn, H.G. drillen, , to turn.

drillaskøvi [drɩᶅ··askø·vi],, sea-term, tabu-name in fishermen’s for the otter Really “the one that drags its tail” (de ); see $1$, , , as a tabu-name for the otter, and dratthali, , a nickname for the fox, with the same root-meaning as.

dring,, see ,

drinj [drɩᶇ],, sea-term, tabu-name for the cat; also “-tail.” “ [drɩŋ]-tail” is now the more form. — is most an *drynj- from *drynja in sense of to walk slowly and draggingly; “drinj-tail,” thus = one that drags its tail.  dryna, , to be slow and sluggish; to idle; loiter, and (“drag-tail”), as well as as tabu-names for otter, and  dratthali (“drag-tail”) as a nickname for the fox. is dring,, to be slow.

drintel$2$ [drɩ’ntəl],, in building a wall or fence: a projecting cross-stone the end of which has to be broken off. May represent an older *,  denoting a pole. ,, , long and thin, also trandle,, a cleft