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noun 
  1. A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen.
  2. An unmanned aircraft.
  3. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
    • 1908: w:Kenneth Grahame, Kenneth Grahame, w:The Wind in the Willows, The Wind in the Willows
    • : He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous .
      1. One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
verb (dron, ing)
  1. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
  2. To speak in a monotone way.
Etymology: Old English dran, drÄn "male bee", from Germanic
  • dran-. Cognate with dialectal German Dríne.


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