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124 log (for laying a floor or pavement), trinna, trenta,, a pole; hedge-stake ( trana,, in “tjalds-trana”, a tent-pole, and trjóna, , a) a snout; b) a pole;  trunt, , and trynt, , a snout-shaped, projecting object).

drintel$2$ [drɩ‘ntəl, dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl, dr$e$ɩ‘ᶇtəl],, 1) a person with baggy clothes, flapping about him; [dre‘ntəl]. 2) a slow, slouching person; [drɩ‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]; [dr$h$ɩ‘ᶇtəl]. 3) a person fiddling about without really doing anything, and 4) a weakling; sickly wretch; [drɩ‘ntəl, dr$e$ɩ‘ntəl: dr$e$ɩ‘ᶇtəl: ]; [dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]. 5) an insignificant person; [drɩ‘ntəl, dre‘ntəl]. 6) a miserable, ragged person; [dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]. 7) a poor, worthless article; [dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]. — *dryntl or*dryntill? This must be associated partly with  drunta, drynta,, = dranta, to idle; dawdle; loiter,  drunta,  drunte, drynte, dronte; partly with drunt, , a) dirt, mud; b) a coarse, slovenly person. Is doubtless more than one word.  ,

drintel [drɩ‘ntəl, dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl, dr$e$ɩ‘ᶇtəl],, 1) to wear baggy clothes, flapping about one, to geng slowly and loiteringly, to slouch, to d. or geng aboot;  [drɩ‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl];  [dr$h$ɩ‘ᶇtəl]. 3) to potter about without really doing anything; [dr$e$ɩ‘ᶇtəl]. With hardening of initial d to t through of the t : [tr$h$ɩ‘ntəl, tr$e$ɩ‘ᶇtəl] = 2 and 3. — : *dryntla from *drunta, $h$. ,
 * [dre‘ntəl]. 2) to walk
 * drynta, to dawdle; loiter; see the

drintelskiti [drɩ‘n··təlskit·i],, 1) dirt which remains in woollen yarn or clothes after washing. 2) diarrhœadiarrhœa [sic]; also [drɩ‘n··təlsᶄɩt·ər]. With the first part of the    drunt, , dirt; filth, and drent (drint), , spot in badly washed linen. The second part is skítr,, dirt; excrement.

drintlet [drɩ‘ntlət, dre‘ntlət, drə‘ntlət, dr$e$ɩ‘ᶇtlət],, 1) wearing baggy clothes flapping about one’s body; [dre‘ntlət]. 2) slow; dawdling; slouching; [drɩ‘ntlət, drə‘ntlət]; [dr$e$ɩ‘ᶇtᶅət]. 3) pottering about without really doing any work; [dr$e$ɩ‘ᶇtlət], also [tr$h$ɩ‘ᶇtlət]; a puir [‘poor’] d. body. — *dryntlóttr. See $2$,, and ,

drip [dri̇̄p],, to bend one’s body and let oneself sink slowly down; to collapse, drop slowly down; to d. doon [‘down’]; of living beings. .  drýpa (for drúpa),, to bend; stoop; lower. dreip,, is somewhat (to fall in drops; to descend perpendicularly; to drip, ). See ,

dripl, dripel [drəpəl],, 1) sprinkling; drizzling rain; 2) small stain; : *dripl = *dropl. See, , and for meaning 2, ,

dripl, dripel [drəpəl],, 1) , a) to dribble; sprinkle; drizzle; he is ; b) of liquid in a pail: to drip; de water is fae [‘from’] de daffock [‘pail’]. 2)  , to spill; drop, of one who carries something in a careless manner; to d. water, to d. de taatis [‘potatoes’]; with object omitted: to geng. — dripla, dropla, , to dribble, dripple,, = dribble. That the, , is of Norse origin may be concluded by the senses given under , 2, and ,

driplet [drəplət],, spotted; speckled, having small, irregular spots, of the sky covered with very small clouds; a d. sky.