Verb

(en verb)

(dialectal) drown

* {{quote-book, year=1876, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="I know now!" exclaimed Tom; "somebody's drownded !" }}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=M. Leonora Eyles, title=Captivity, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Next time yous come along we'll have had a drop o' rain, an' then you can drownd yourselfs if you want to," said the stationmaster. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=One of his feete unwares from him did slide, That downe hee fell into the deepe abisse, 545 Where drownd with him is all his earthlie blisse. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1676, author=Izaak Walton, title=The Compleat Angler, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found, As if the world were in deep waters drownd . }}

Verb

(head)

* , scene i:

So frownd he once, when in an angry parle / He ?mot the ?leaded pollax on the ice.