Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of the preterit of
draw .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imperative obsolete of
draw .
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Examples
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The food used for this custom, worthy of barbarians, is a seed called drough; which is of an extraordinary fattening quality, and also famous for rendering the milk of nurses rich and abundant.
Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Francis Augustus Cox 1818
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I have to agree - the use of drough and drought could be seen as a typo.
Title Trouble Glenda Larke 2007
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Makes you wonder what casused the long drough of the 1960s/70s in Kenya when the global temperaturees were quite a bit cooler and going down.
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Last year we had a drough emergency, but it seems that we are making up for that now.
"The Rainest Month of June" angelbaby67 2003
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An 'when she do walk hwome vrom church drough the groun',
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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So straïght as the zunbeams, a-shot drough the bough
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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Whenne other children ornen to pleye · toward churche he drough.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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An 'tapp'd, drough little holes noo eyes could spy,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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That shot all drough the lim's o'n, an 'left a cwold zweat,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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'Merican midshipman overboard once, so they say, drough a porthole.
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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