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Throng vs Dreave - What's the difference?

throng | dreave |

As nouns the difference between throng and dreave

is that throng is a group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude while dreave is a drove.

As verbs the difference between throng and dreave

is that throng is (label) to crowd into a place, especially to fill it while dreave is to drive; drive out; drive away; expel.

As an adjective throng

is (scotland|northern england|dialect) filled with persons or objects; crowded.

throng

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  • * Daniel
  • So, with this bold opposer rushes on / This many-headed monster, multitude .
  • * Milton
  • Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, / The lowest of your throng .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng ; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
  • A group of things; a host or swarm.
  • Quotations

    * 1885 — *: Perhaps you suppose this throng *: Can't keep it up all day long?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
  • (label) To congregate.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
  • (label) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  • * Bible, (w) v. 24
  • Much people followed him, and thronged him.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
  • *1882 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, :
  • *:EARTH, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng
  • *:And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal
  • *:To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel;
  • *:That canst but only be, but dost that long—
  • dreave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dreven, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To drive; drive out; drive away; expel.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) draf, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drove.
  • A crowd or throng of people.
  • The yearly herring fishing.
  • A shoal of fish; a catch.