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Drone (1 syl.)

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The largest tube of a bagpipe; so called because it sounds only one continuous note. (German, drohne, verb, drohnen, to groan or drone.)

A drone. An idle person who lives on the means of another, as drones on the honey collected by bees; a sluggard. (Anglo-Saxon dræn, a male bee.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Drivelling Dotage
Driver of Europe (Le Cocher de lEurope)
Drivers
Drives fat Oxen (Who)
Driving for Rent
Driving Pigs
Droit dAubaine
Drôle
Dromio
Drone
Drop
Drop (To)
Drop in (To)
Drop off (To)
Drop Serene (gutta serena)
Drown the Miller (To)
Drowned Rat
Drowned in a Butt of Malmsey
Drowning Men
Drows