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Definition of Droner
1. one that drones [n -S] - See also: drones
Lexicographical Neighbors of Droner
Literary usage of Droner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighborhood: Its Missionary Aspect by Charles Freer Andrews, Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Horace Mather Lippncott, 1877-1967 (1912)
"... droner, Toper, Bowler or Bellman, or a dozen others bearing equally suggestive
names, would pursue puss over field and hedge, through woodland or marsh, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1854)
"Mr. droner. To call the attention of the House to the circumstances attending
the arrest of a Jew pedlar, called Moses ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... or lectrice (rare), droner, liner. readily, adv. ready (now only in the
comparative or superlative, exc. colloq. or dial.), quickly, immediately ..."
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