dra - Hamely Tongue
Source: The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim
Author: James Fenton
Comments: ‘The Hamely Tongue’ has been widely acclaimed as the authoritative record of contemporary (surviving) Ulster-Scots in its heartland of County Antrim where James Fenton faithfully recorded his dictionary items among a network of other native speakers over a 30-year period. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from ‘Part One’ of the fourth edition of 2014 and includes over 3000 word entries. The book preliminaries, supplementary word lists and end matter have been excluded.
dra ~ v. draw; haul (esp. with horse and cart); (of tea) simmer. pt., pp. dra’d (also drew). dra’ins loose stalks of flax drawn from the strick (also pookins: see pook). dra oot pull out, withdraw. dra oot an hit strike (He drew oot an hut him a sowse). dra the dole receive unemployment benefit. dra wae lang traces obtain information in a painstaking, indirect way (E). dra yin strike a blow (drew him yin before he knowed). n. a smoke (a wee dra o the pipe); a win in a sweepstake (They’r niver awa frae the shaps frae they got that dra).
