Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fishing trip in which the members of the crew go as sharesmen, each supplying a net and receiving a share of the profits.
- noun A haul.
- noun Archaic preterit of
drive .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete old imp. of
drive .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Drava .
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Examples
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Drave ye the maid, for a guest so sunnily lock'd deep sighing.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Drave ye the maid, for a guest so sunnily lock'd deep sighing.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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War between Hungarian nationalists and portions of the Hungarian army under Kossuth, and the Viennese army, started with the escalation of Austrian troops crossing the Drave on Sept. 1.
b. Hungary 2001
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If all went well, the two prongs of the French offensive, Bonaparte and Joubert, would advance along their respective axis and eventually meet in the valley of the River Drave for the final drive on Vienna.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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If all went well, the two prongs of the French offensive, Bonaparte and Joubert, would advance along their respective axis and eventually meet in the valley of the River Drave for the final drive on Vienna.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Drave back th 'invading ships, and from the shoals
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars 39-65 Lucan
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August the breach between the Austrian and Hungarian governments was open and complete; on the 4th of September Jellachich was reinstated in all his honours, and on the 11th he crossed the Drave to the invasion of Hungary.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Dec.S. Hungary (near the confluence of the Drave with the Danube) was visited by seismic movements along this same great circle, which passes through the extinct volcanic region of the Eifel, the oft shaken Comrie in Perthshire, S.otland, the volcanic Iceland, our National Park with its thousands of geysers, the cataclysmic region of S.lt Lake and the
Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various
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Drave ye the maid, for a guest so sunnily lock'd deep sighing.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Drave the strong North, or shrilled the ravening East,
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