drine

• IPA^(key): [ˈdriɲe]

drine f

1. dative/locative singular of drina

From Middle English thrine, from Late Old English þrinna, from Old Norse þrinnr.

• IPA^(key): /driːn/

drine

1. three
   • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:

     Aar's neer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.

     There is no fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench (be three-fold).

• twine (“two”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 111