† drumbler, drumler Obs.
Also 7 dromler.
[a. early mod.Du. drommeler a kind of ship (Kilian); perh. a perversion of the foreign term dromon, dromond after a native word: cf. drommel a compact and dense thing, drommeler a square-built ‘chunky’ man.]
1. A name in the 17th c. for a small fast vessel, used as a transport, also as a piratical ship of war.
| 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 601 (R.) She was immediately assaulted by diuers English pinasses, hoyes, and drumblers. 1604 E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 31 Two Dromlers laden with bowes. 1611 Cotgr., Dromant, a Drumbler, Carauell, or such like small, and swift vessell, vsed by Pyrats. 1630 J. Taylor Navy of Land Ships Wks. i. 87/2 Seuerall vessels at Sea doe make a Nauy, as Carracks..Barkes, Pinnaces, Hoighs, Drumlers, Fregates, Brigandines. |
2. A wheelbarrow.
| 1613 Markham Eng. Husbandman i. ii. xvi. (1635) 204 This dunge you shall bring into your Garden in little drumblars or wheele-barrowes. |