"drant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: drants [plural]
Etymology: From Scots drant, draunt (“droning or drawling tone”), borrowed from Scottish Gaelic dranndan, draundan (“hum, buzzing, complaint, growl, snarl”), akin to Irish drantán (“hum, buzzing, growl”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sco|drant}} Scots drant, {{bor|en|gd|dranndan}} Scottish Gaelic dranndan, {{cog|ga|drantán||hum, buzzing, growl}} Irish drantán (“hum, buzzing, growl”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} drant (plural drants)
  1. (Scotland, dialect) A droning tone. Tags: Scotland, dialectal
    Sense id: en-drant-en-noun-csI7ar2d Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Sounds Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 49 Disambiguation of Sounds: 52 48

Verb

Forms: drants [present, singular, third-person], dranting [participle, present], dranted [participle, past], dranted [past]
Etymology: From Scots drant, draunt (“droning or drawling tone”), borrowed from Scottish Gaelic dranndan, draundan (“hum, buzzing, complaint, growl, snarl”), akin to Irish drantán (“hum, buzzing, growl”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sco|drant}} Scots drant, {{bor|en|gd|dranndan}} Scottish Gaelic dranndan, {{cog|ga|drantán||hum, buzzing, growl}} Irish drantán (“hum, buzzing, growl”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} drant (third-person singular simple present drants, present participle dranting, simple past and past participle dranted)
  1. (Scotland, dialect, ambitransitive) To drawl; to drone. Tags: Scotland, ambitransitive, dialectal
    Sense id: en-drant-en-verb-DIhUF~~4 Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Sounds Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 49 Disambiguation of Sounds: 52 48

Inflected forms

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