English Explanatory Dictionary

dreave

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To drive; drive out; drive away; expel.
noun
  1. A drove.
  2. A crowd or throng of people.
  3. The yearly herring fishing.
  4. A shoal of fish; a catch.

Word forms

dreave dreaves dreaving dreft dreaved dreve drave draif dreef

Etymology

From Middle English dreven, from Old English drǣfan (“to drive, drive out, expel”), from Proto-Germanic *draibijaną (“to cause to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Icelandic dreifa (“to spread out, disperse”). More at drive.

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