Draughts. Hazel-rods selected for hurdle-making (D.). A 'draught' is not a rod, but a bundle of long wood suitable for hurdles or pea-sticks, bound with a single withe.—N.W.
Drave. 'I be slaving an' draving (i.e. working myself to death) for he, night and day.'—N. & S.W.
Draw. (1) A squirrel's dray or nest.—N.W. (Marlborough.) (2) Rarely applied to a large nest, as a hawk's. Compare:—'Draw, to build a nest (Berners),' an old hawking term.—N.W. (Marlborough.)
Drawing. See Drawn.
Drawn. In a water-meadow, the large open main drain which carries the water back to the river, after it has passed through the various carriages and trenches.—S.W. In every-day use about Salisbury, and along the Avon and Wiley from Downton to Codford, but rarely heard elsewhere.
'Many of the meadows on either length [near Salisbury] abound in ditches and "drawns."'—Fishing Gazette, July 18, 1891, p. 40, col. 2.
'I ... descried three birds, standing quite still [at Britford] by the margin of a flooded "drawing."'—Wilts Arch. Mag. xxi. 229.
Dredge, Drodge. Barley and oats grown together.—S.W.
Dribs-and-Drabs. Odds and ends. 'All in dribs and drabs,' all in tatters.—N. & S.W.
Drieth. See Dryth.