Drumly

Quick meaning: Drumly is an adjective meaning (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) turbid; muddy.

Meaning

(obsolete, chiefly Scotland) turbid; muddy.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• drumlier
• drumliest

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grumly, troublous, muddy, turbulous, murkly, turbid.

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