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dreng Eng. Hist.|drɛŋ|
Also 1 drench, drengh, 3 drenche, dringche, 3–4 dring(e, Sc. 6–8 dring.
[OE. dreng, ON. drengr young man, lad, fellow, (Sw. dräng man, servant, some one's ‘man’, Da. dreng boy, lad, apprentice). The modern word, had it survived in living use, would have been dring; but the OE. and Norse form dreng is retained by historical writers.]
A free tenant (specially) in ancient Northumbria, holding by a tenure older than the Norman Conquest, the nature of which was partly military, partly servile. See Maitland, ‘Northumbrian Tenures’ in Eng. Hist. Rev. V. 632.
a1000Battle of Maldon 149 Forlet ða drenga sum daroð of handa, fleoᵹan of folmum. 1086Domesday Bk. 269 b, Hujus manerii [Neweton, Lanc.] aliam terram xv. homines quos drenchs vocabant pro xv. oris tenebant..Modo sunt ibi vi. drenghs. c1100Charter of Ranulph in Murray Dial. S.C. Scot. 22 note, R[anulf] bisceop greteð wel alle his þeines & drenges of Ealondscire & of Norhamscire. c1205Lay. 12713 Androgien wes þer king; vnder him wes moni hæh dring. Ibid. 14700 Drenches. a1300Cursor M. 16022 (Cott.) All þai gadird o þe tun, bath freman and dring. c1300Havelok 2258 And siþen drenges, and siþen thaynes, And siþen knithes, and siþen sweynes. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. §96 (ed. 3) I. 262 Lanfranc..turned the drengs, the rent-paying tenants of his archiepiscopal estates, into knights for the defence of the country. 1890F. W. Maitland in Eng. Hist. Rev. V. 628 Under Richard I the thegns and drengs of Northumberland paid tallage.
b. Contemptuously: A low or base fellow. Sc.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 278 Quhilk is knawin for ane wrache or dring. a1605Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 796 Deid dring, dryd sting! thou will hing but a sunȝie. 1799Struthers To the Blackbird ix, The Captive o' some dudron dring, Dull, fat an' frowsy. |