drawk

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English drauke.[1] Possibly from Welsh drewg (“darnel”), through Gaulish drāyāka or Latin dravoca.[2]

Noun

drawk (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Ryegrass, darnel, cockle, tare, or wild oats.[3][4]
  2. (archaic) Grass growing as a weed among corn.[2]

Etymology 2

From Middle Scots drawken, perhaps akin to Old Norse drukna.[5]

Verb

drawk (third-person singular simple present drawks, present participle drawking, simple past and past participle drawked)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To drench with water.

References
  1. drauk and drauke - Middle English Compendium‎, 2018, retrieved 2020-03-04
  2. Zair, Nicholas (2012 August 22) The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic‎, BRILL, →ISBN, page 97
  3. Dutt, William Alfred (1906) Wild Life in East Anglia‎, Methuen & Company
  4. Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia‎, Department of Agriculture., 1899
  5. “drawk”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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