droke drook [var. of draw] Edit

  • n. a clump of trees, especially evergreens; a copse.

    See also: bluff (def. 3)  drogue  

    • Usually associated with Newfoundland, this term does occur elsewhere in the Atlantic Provinces and in the Hudson Bay area.
    • 1772  (1792)  I then went over Lower Table to the Droke; where I observed much old slot of deer.Bibliography
    • 1907  . . . as we stops to look we hear a faint call from a droke o' spruce close by--a' runs up, and there lies Baxter 'most froze.Bibliography
    • 1934  "Look at the barrens and drokes," said the light-keeper. "Drokes?" "Yes, little stumps of trees. The word is an Old Country one handed down to us by our ancestors."Bibliography
    • 1941  Droke--A bluff or grove of woods.Bibliography