Citations:dright

English citations of dright

• 1919 December, Frank Ormerod, “The Cock Hall Boggart”, in The Millgate Monthly, volume 15, number 171, →OCLC, page 137, column 2:

  And I've a mouth like a sewer. I could do with a dright of ale some weel!

Sense: a multitude; army; host

• 1943, ELH., volumes 10-12, page 262:

  […] and Finn's compatriots were of course his subjects; more particularly, his close associates, the members of his dright.

• 2003, 1962, Albert C. Baugh, Kemp Malone, A Literary History of England:

  The king shared his goods with the dright and took them into his very household; the dright shielded him with their bodies on the field of battle, and if he fell they fought on, to victory or death, […]