PATTERSON ON NEWFOUNDLAND DIALECT. xlix 
Dout, a contraction of ‘do out,” to extinguish, and douwter, an 
extinguisher, marked in the dictionaries as obsolete, but noted by 
Halliwell as still used in various provincial dialects of England. 
First, in the intellect it douts the light.—Sylvester. 
The dram of base 
Doth all the noblest substance dout. 
Shakespeare, Hamlet i. 4. 
Newfoundlanders also express the same idea by the phrase, ‘make out 
the light.” 
Droke, a sloping valley between two hills. When wood extends 
across it, it is called a droke of wood. In Old Norse there is a noun 
drég, a streak, also a noun drag, a soft slope or valley, which in another 
form drog, is applied to the watercourse downa valley. Similar is the 
word drock, in Provincial English given in Halliwell as in Wiltshire a 
noun meaning a watercourse, and in Gloucester a verb, to drain with 
underground stone trenches. 
Drung, a narrow lane. Wright and Halliwell give it under the 
form of dwn, as Wiltshire, with the same signification. 
Dunch cake or bread, unleavened bread, composed of flour mixed 
with water and baked at once. So Wright and Halliwell give dunch 
dumpling as in Westmoreland denoting “a plain pudding made of flour 
and water.” 
Dwoll, a state between sleeping and waking, a dozing. A man will 
say, ‘I got no sleep last night, [had only a dwoll.” This seems kindred 
to the Scotch word dwam, which means swoon. ‘“ He is no deid, he is 
only in a dwam.” Wright and Halliwell give a similar if not the same 
word as dwale, originally meaning the plant nightshade, then a lethar- 
gic disease or a sleeping potion. 
Flankers, sparks coming from a chimney, so Halliwell gives it as 
meaning sparks of fire. In old English, when used as a verb, it denotes 
to sparkle. 
‘* Who can bide the flanckering flame 
That still itself betrays ?” 
—Turbevile’s Ovid, p. 83. 
The noun is generally flanke or jlaunke (Dan. flunke) a spark. 
‘* Pelle flaunkes of fyr and flashes of soufre.” 
—Farly Eng. Allit. Poems, ‘‘ Cleanness,” 953. 
