drazel

English

Etymology

Compare dross, drossel.

Noun

drazel (plural drazels)

  1. (obsolete) A slut; a vagabond wench; a drossel.
    • Hudibras, p. iii. cant. 1.
      As the devil uses witches, To be their cully for a space, That, when the time's expir'd, the drazels For ever may become his vassals.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for drazel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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