A Scottish dialect word, possibly meaning a crowd, throng, or the act of crowding together; archaic and rarely used.
From Middle English or Scots, possibly related to 'crowd' but with uncertain etymology. May be connected to Old English roots for gathering or pressing together.
Droud is a word that's almost vanished—it survives mainly in historical Scottish texts, like a fossil of medieval Scots where people used it for any gathering or press of bodies.
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