▪ I. drawk, drauk, n.
(drɔːk)
Also 4–6 drauke, 5–9 drake, 6, 9 dravick, (8–9 erron. drank), 9 droke.
[Corresponds to OF. droe, droue, F. droc, med.L. drauca, MDu. dravik, mod.Du. dravig, according to Verdam Bromus secalinus.]
A kind of grass growing as a weed among corn; app. orig. Bromus secalinus, but also applied (at least in books) to Lolium temulentum and Avena fatua, and so confounded with ‘cockle’ or ‘darnel’ (lolium, zizania), and wild oats.
| c 1325 Metr. Hom. 152 With gastly drauc and wit darnele. c 1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Rel. Ant. II. 80 Drauck, betel. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 130/2 Drawke, wede, drauca. c 1475 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 787/1 Hec zizania, a drawke. 1483 Cath. Angl. 107/2 Drake or darnylle. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §20 Drake is lyke vnto rye, till it begynne to sede. 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. xvi. 470 Festuca, or as the Douchmen call it Drauick, is also a hurtfull plant, hauing his leaues and strawe not much vnlyke Rye, at the top whereof growe spreading eares..it may be also very well called..in Englishe Wilde Otes, or Drauick. 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. lv. (1633) 76 Bromus Altera, Drauke. 1802 Barrington Hist. N.S. Wales vi. 159 The corn..was much mixed with a weed called drake. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Drawk, the common darnel-grass. 1846 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VII. ii. 351 Droke is the enemy most to be dreaded in strong soils. |
▪ II. drawk, v. Sc. and north. dial.
Also 6, 9 draik, 8 drake, 9 drauk.
[Etymology obscure: perh. related to ON. drekkja to drench, drown, swamp, submerge.]
trans. To saturate with moisture, as flour or quicklime with water.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 102 All his pennis war drownd and drawkit [v.r. draikit]. 1776 Sir J. Malcolm in Herd's Collect. II. 99 (Jam.) The tail o't hang down, Like a meikle maan lang draket gray goose-pen. 1810 Cromek Rem. Nithsdale Song (1880) 58 O dight, quo she, yere mealy mou', For my twa lips ye're drauking. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Drawk, Drack, to saturate with water. 1856 W. A. Foster in W. S. Crockett Minstr. of Merse (1893) 152 The muir-fowl likes the heatherbell When draiket wi' the dew. |