Meaning of drumly | Babel Free

Definitions

turbid; muddy

Scotland, obsolete

Examples

“Now we cross the Arrow, swift as its name portends; roaring and foaming deep down in its drumly channel.”

“But salmon may escape the coquettish charms of the trolling-hook, may safely run the gauntlet of the parallel canoes and their howling, tamanous-cap wearers; the spear, misguided in the drumly gleam, may glance harmless from scale-armed shoulders: still other perils await them.”

“Ye banks, and braes, and streams around The castle o’ Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie!”

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