draven.
/dreɪv/, U.S. /dreɪv/, Scottish English /drev/ Scottish.
A fishing expedition in which several men take part, each supplying a net and receiving a share of the profits made. Later, A haul (of fish); also, a shoal.
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1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 202 Artificers, Day-labourers, and Farmers Servants that live near the Coast..make it a Condition with their Masters, to be allowed the Drave to themselves.
1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) IV. 18 An Adventure of this Kind is called a Drave..two or three Fishermen associate five or six Landmen, for there are commonly eight or nine Men to a Boat.
1793 Statist. Acc. Fifesh. IX. 445 (Jam.) The Drave, as it is here called, was seldom known to fail.
1854 H. Keddie Phemie Millar I. 224 Phemie loved the stir and excitement of the great herring drave.
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