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log (for laying a floor or pavement), Sw. dial. trinna, trenta, f., a pole; hedge-stake (O.N. trana, f., in “tjalds-trana”, a tent-pole, and O.N. trjóna, f., a) a snout; b) a pole; No. trunt, m., and trynt, n., a snout-shaped, projecting object).

drintel² [drɩ‘ntəl, dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl, dr^eɩ‘ᶇtəl], sb., 1) a person with baggy clothes, flapping about him; Fo. [dre‘ntəl]. 2) a slow, slouching person; Du. [drɩ‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]; Y^h. [dr^eɩ‘ᶇtəl]. 3) a person fiddling about without really doing anything, and 4) a weakling; sickly wretch; N.I. [drɩ‘ntəl, dr^eɩ‘ntəl: Fe. dr^eɩ‘ᶇtəl: Y^h.]; N.Roe [dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]. 5) an insignificant person; Nm. [drɩ‘ntəl, dre‘ntəl]. 6) a miserable, ragged person; N.Roe [dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]. 7) a poor, worthless article; N.Roe [dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]. — *dryntl or*dryntill? This must be associated partly with No. drunta, drynta, vb., = dranta, to idle; dawdle; loiter, Sw. dial. drunta, Da. dial. drunte, drynte, dronte; partly with Sw. dial. drunt, m., a) dirt, mud; b) a coarse, slovenly person. Is doubtless more than one word. Cf. trintel, sb.

drintel [drɩ‘ntəl, dre‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl, dr^eɩ‘ᶇtəl], vb., 1) to wear baggy clothes, flapping about one, to geng drintlin; Fo. [dre‘ntəl]. 2) to walk slowly and loiteringly, to slouch, to d. or geng drintlin aboot; Du. [drɩ‘ntəl, drə‘ntəl]; Y^h. [dr^eɩ‘ᶇtəl]. 3) to potter about without really doing anything; Y^h. [dr^eɩ‘ᶇtəl]. With hardening of initial d to t through infl. of the t foll.: trintel [tr^eɩ‘ntəl, tr^eɩ‘ᶇtəl] (Fe., Y^h. occas.) = drintel 2 and 3. — Prob.: *dryntla from *drunta, *drynta, to dawdle; loiter; see the sb. drintel². Cf. trintel, vb.

drintelskiti [drɩ‘n··təlskit·i], sb., 1) dirt which remains in woollen yarn or clothes after washing. 2) diarrhœa; also drintelskiter [drɩ‘n··təlsᶄɩt·ər]. Conn. With the first part of

the compd. cf. Sw. dial. drunt, m., dirt; filth, and Eng. dial. drent (drint), sb., spot in badly washed linen. The second part is O.N. skítr, m., dirt; excrement.

drintlet [drɩ‘ntlət, dre‘ntlət, drə‘ntlət, dr^eɩ‘ᶇtlət], adj., 1) wearing baggy clothes flapping about one’s body; Fo. [dre‘ntlət]. 2) slow; dawdling; slouching; Du. [drɩ‘ntlət, drə‘ntlət]; Y^h. [dr^eɩ‘ᶇtᶅət]. 3) pottering about without really doing any work; Y^h. [dr^eɩ‘ᶇtlət], also trintlet [tr^eɩ‘ᶇtlət]; a puir [‘poor’] d. body. — *dryntlóttr. See drintel², sb., and drintel, vb.

drip [dri̇̄p], vb., to bend one’s body and let oneself sink slowly down; to collapse, drop slowly down; to d. doon [‘down’]; esp. of living beings. Wests. (Sa.). Cf. Fær. drýpa (for drúpa), vb., to bend; stoop; lower. L.Sc. dreip, vb., is somewhat diff. (to fall in drops; to descend perpendicularly; to drip, etc.). See drup, vb.

dripl, dripel [drəpəl], sb., 1) sprinkling; drizzling rain; Nm. 2) small stain; Nm^s. Prob.: *dripl = *dropl. See dripl, vb., and for meaning 2, driplet, adj.

dripl, dripel [drəpəl], vb., 1) vb. n., a) to dribble; sprinkle; drizzle; he is driplin; b) of liquid in a pail: to drip; de water is driplin fae [‘from’] de daffock [‘pail’]. 2) vb. a., to spill; drop, of one who carries something in a careless manner; to d. water, to d. de taatis [‘potatoes’]; with object omitted: to geng driplin. Nm. — No. dripla, dropla, vbs., to dribble, L.Sc. dripple, vb., = Eng. dribble. That the Shetl. dripl, vb., is of Norse origin may be concluded by the senses given under dripl, sb. 2, and driplet, adj.

driplet [drəplət], adj., spotted; speckled, having small, irregular spots, e.g. of the sky covered with very small clouds; a d. sky. Nm^s.