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 84 .^AST CORNWALL GLOSS ART. Drang, a ilarrow passage or alley,' A.S. thrang^ thringen^ to press, squeeze, or thrust, Draah, to thrash. Drashel, a flail, Draxel, the threshold. Dredge-corn, a mixed crop of barley, oats, and wheat. Driff, a small quantity* A word now not commonly used. Dringed, or Dringed np, crowded. Drith, Dryth, dryness. Drover, a fishing boat employed in driving or fishing with drift or floating nets. Drug, to drag. *' Dnig the wheel" Chaucer says : — And at the gate he profred his servyse To drugge and drawe what so men wold devyse. KnighUa Tale, Dmle, to dHvel. Dnunble-drane, the humble bee. Dnbbnt, short ; dumpy. Dnggle, to walk about with eflbrt and care, like a very young child. Dnmbledory, the cockchafer^ Dnmmet, the dusk. Dwalder, to speak tediously and confusedly. Ear-bnBsnms, the tonsils. Easy, idiotic. Eaver, in some parts pronounced Hayyer. The grass, Lolium Eglet, or Aglet, the fruit of the white thorn, haw. Elleck, a species of gurnard, Trigla guguIus. Carew in his enumera- tion of Cornish fishes mentions tiiie " lUek." Elvan, probably a purely Cornish term applied to intrusive dykes of poiphyritio felsite, but sometimes locally and ignorantly to coarse sandy beds of killas. Enuners, embers. En. The old plural termination still kept by some English nouns, as ox, oxen ; chick, chicken, is retained by us in pea, peasen ; house, housen, &o. Eppingstock, the step from which a horse is mounted by women. A common convenience in most farm-yards. Qy. ujs^pm^-stock.