PATTERSON ON NEWFOUNDLAND DIALECT. xlix 



Dout, a contraction of " do out," to extinguish, and douter, 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 

 drog, a streak, also a noun drag, a soft slope or valley, which in another 

 form drog, is applied to the watercourse down a 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 drun, 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 duncli 

 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, I 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 divale, 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 flanckeriny flame 

 That still itself betrays ?" 



Turbevile's Ovid, p. 83. 



The noun is generally flanke ov flaunke (Dan. flunke) a spark. 



" Felle/(umes of fyr and flashes of soufre." 



Early Eng. Allit. Poems, " Cleanness," 953. 



