"drumly" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈdɹʌmli/ Forms: more drumly [comparative], most drumly [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʌmli Etymology: Compare droumy. Head templates: {{en-adj}} drumly (comparative more drumly, superlative most drumly)
  1. (obsolete, dialect, UK, Scotland) turbid; muddy Tags: Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
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          "ref": "1887, James Inglis, chapter 15, in Our New Zealand Cousins:",
          "text": "Now we cross the Arrow, swift as its name portends; roaring and foaming deep down in its drumly channel.",
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          "ref": "1853, Theodore Winthrop, chapter 3, in The Canoe and the Saddle:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1786, Robert Burns, “Highland Mary”, in Songs and Ballads:",
          "text": "Ye banks, and braes, and streams around\nThe castle o’ Montgomery,\nGreen be your woods, and fair your flowers,\nYour waters never drumlie!",
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      "ipa": "/ˈdɹʌmli/"
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          "ref": "1887, James Inglis, chapter 15, in Our New Zealand Cousins:",
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          "ref": "1853, Theodore Winthrop, chapter 3, in The Canoe and the Saddle:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1786, Robert Burns, “Highland Mary”, in Songs and Ballads:",
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