drumly

comparative drumlier · comparative more drumly · superlative drumliest · superlative most drumly

1. Scotlandobsoleteturbid; muddy

   Now we cross the Arrow, swift as its name portends; roaring and foaming deep down in its drumly channel.

   1887, James Inglis, chapter 15, in Our New Zealand Cousins

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   But salmon may escape the coquettish charms of the trolling-hook, may safely run the gauntlet of the parallel canoes and their howling, tamanous-cap wearers; the spear, misguided in the drumly gleam, may glance harmless from scale-armed shoulders: still other perils await them.

   1853, Theodore Winthrop, chapter 3, in The Canoe and the Saddle

   Ye banks, and braes, and streams around The castle o’ Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie!

   1786, Robert Burns, “Highland Mary”, in Songs and Ballads