dreen

dreen (plural dreens)

1. (Appalachia) Alternative form of drain
   • [1803, George Neville Ussher, The Elements of English Grammar‎, Galen H. Fay, page 95:

     Dreen for drain.]

   • 1947, Ben Williams, A House Divided‎, Chicago Review Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 366:

     Tony, Pa moved to Mike's Run, it is a little dreen runs into Patterson crick Mr. Cavett will tell you where.

   • 2003, Mike Bottini, Trail Guide to the South Fork‎, Harbor Electronic Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:

     […] the northern shoreline of Big Fresh Pond and the upper reaches of an unnamed brook known locally as the ale-wife dreen.