10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRANGWAY»
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drangway in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
drangway and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Drangway. See Drang (S.). Drashel, Dreshol, &c. A flail (D.). The correct term for
a flail is a drashel, but ' a pair o' drashells ' (or ' dreshols ') is more commonly
used, as two men generally work together. — N. & S.W. *Drattle. Much talk (S.).
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A glossary of words used in the county of Wiltshire
Drangway. See Drang (S.). Drashel, Dreshol, &c. A flail (D.). The correct term for
a flail is a drashel, but ' a pair o' drashells ' (or ' dreshols ') is more commonly
used, as two men generally work together. — N. & S.W. *Drattle. Much talk (&).
George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard, 1893
507 ; ii. 118 Drangway, its meaning, ii. 118 _ Draper (Cresheld), M.P. Winchelsea
1678—87, 1x. 448 Drapers' shops in olden times, xii. 228 Draughts of air, vi. 346
Drawing-knife, its meaning, ix. 86 “ Drawn and quartered," iii. 384 Draycot, 00.
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The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected ...
Drangway = a narrow passage. 'Urn up thickee there drangway, Polly; there's a
wild bullick coming awver drii tha strayte.' Drash = to belabour. ' Ef I catch thee in
my orchit again, I'm burned ef I dawnt drash thee black an' blue.' Drashel = a ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
\Ve hadn't run ten yards ere we missed th' drangway, an horrid seared we were
thereat, Illaoox—Bnown l'dli-lwmuls 1876') 253; He's jist rinned up the drang-way
, Rrpmls Prow'nc. (18911; Urn up thickec there drangway, Polly; there's a wild ...
He is sexton, postman, and smallholder combined. Mr. Lock told me I should find
him "up the second drangway" further along High Street, "drangway" being the
Somerset term for an opening between two sets of houses, and up this drangway
I ...
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Bamberger Beiträge zur englischen Sprachwissenschaft
... drangway 1950, 1992, [drarjwei] 1989 n 1950, a narrow lane or alleyway; 1989
(both forms, IM, Mumbles), a narrow passage or lane between two walls or
hedges; (1989 notes EDD's recording of drang n in south-west Dyfed, south-
western ...
Up to London, back to Gower, up to London again—rushing around like an
inklemaker in a drangway,' as they say in their funny Gower English—” “I admit I'
ve been confused in the past. But if I knew I had Oxmoon coming to me, all
confusion ...
At other times we would spend hours under the cloisters in the dungeons where
the damp permeated and mould grew; an area which certainly gave you the
willies, as we searched for that alleged subterranean tunnel or drangway
between ...
He did not go to the store, as I had expected, but down to the gate opening on to
the alley, or "drangway" as we called it in these parts, a thoroughfare giving
access to the rear of all the East Stump premises. There was no street lighting
here.
Ronald Frederick Delderfield, 1974
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRANGWAY»
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Recipes for cooking Michelin-rated food in your own kitchen
Bryan and Ian forged a firm friendship when they worked together in Colin Pressdee's renowned Swansea restaurant, The Drangway, in the ... «WalesOnline, Jul 14»
Michelin starred chefs reveal greed and granny's jam is inspiration
The young chef then moved west to work with Colin Presdee at the Drangway restaurant in Swansea during the late 1970s and early '80s, ... «WalesOnline, Sep 12»
Lost for words - saving the mother tongue
Words like "ommuck" for sandwich and "drangway" for lane are no longer popular. But the unique Northern Ireland "speak' is also under threat. «BBC News, Nov 09»
