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noun
- A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilise the queen.
- An unmanned aircraft.
- 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 .
- One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
Translations: - Dutch: bourdon
- German: Basspfeife
- Italian: fuco
- Spanish: zumbido
(trans-bottom)
(trans-top, pipe)
verb (dron, ing)
- To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
- To speak in a monotone way.
Translations: - Dutch: brommen, eentonig spreken
- German: eintí¶nig sprechen
Etymology: Old English dran, drÄn "male bee", from Germanic - dran-. Cognate with dialectal German Dríne.
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