2019 December 10 [1913], Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Harbor Master, Good Press:
The beach was narrow, and a glance disclosed the fact that at every full tide it was entirely submerged; but a "drook" or a narrow cleft, thickly grown with hardy bushes, led up from the land-wash to the barrens above. […] They beached the bully at the foot of the drook and made her fast. […] Mr. Darling [...] vanished up the tangled slope of the drook.
could be 'valley (with stream)' or 'ditch' (cf. Citations:drock)
1992, José Rafael Pocaterra, Cuentos Venezolanos, page 87:
Chief, take this can and go down to the drook and fetch some water.
cove? something encountered while sailing a schooner
2002, Dawn Rae Downton, Seldom: A Memoir, Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 205:
She'd been dreaming about the schooner at the end of the drook to Uncle Harold's again, its holds of hell fore and aft, about being dropped down them by those smartly gloved hands, having walked in so innocent down the long wooded path. She had had the schooner dream for years but[…]
2017 April 20, David Carpenter, The Gold, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 331:
[…] winging back to the storm off Newfoundland that drove the old schooner into the drook, and what in hell was a drook anyway, and what had brought him all the way out here so far from home, so far from bloody Shacklesbury and the sunsoaked moors of Slaidburn and the slag heaps of Castleford, and […]
1922, Newfoundland. Department of Marine and Fisheries, Annual Report, page 40:
... the Drook or Portugal Cove South. From Drook Point to Cape Race, a distance of about ten miles, the coastline includes Mistaken Point, which, as the name implies ships have mistaken for Cape Race.[…]
2011 April 20, Joan Clark, Latitudes of Melt, Vintage Canada, →ISBN:
... the Drook or Long Beach, where barely enough pastureland remains for sheep to graze. "The clouds look like nightgowns. The ghosts are out for a sail!" I say, trying to cheer up Stanley[…]
a weed, a kind of weed grass, also spelled drawk, drauk, drake, drank; NED relates it to Old French droc, drous, French droc, Dutch dravig
1866, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor, Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, page 87:
... that Drook was degenerated oats , and as a convincing proof said that it was only found growing amongst that grain , and that Darnel was degene- rated wheat , and was never found amongst oats , but I do not know whether this belief is[…]
