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droke
[var. of draw]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:drook
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a clump of trees, especially evergreens; a copse.
Usually associated with Newfoundland, this term does occur elsewhere in the Atlantic Provinces and in the Hudson Bay area.
Quotations
1772
I then went over Lower Table to the Droke; where I observed much old slot of deer.
1907
. . . as we stops to look we hear a faint call from a droke o' spruce close by--a' runs up, and there lies Baxter 'most froze.
1934
"Look at the barrens and drokes," said the light-keeper. "Drokes?" "Yes, little stumps of trees. The word is an Old Country one handed down to us by our ancestors."
1941
Droke--A bluff or grove of woods.