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dring

dring verb: to press; squeeze; crowd; push.

Verb

dring (third-person singular simple present drings, present participle dringing, simple past and past participle dringed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To press; squeeze; crowd; push.

Noun

dring (plural drings)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A throng; crowd.
  2. (UK, dialectal) A narrow passage.

Proper noun capitalized: Dring

Dring

  1. A surname.
  2. A townland in County Cavan, Ireland.
  3. A hamlet and townland in County Longford, Ireland. Irish spelling: Droing.

Forms of dring

Verb
third-person singular presentdrings
present participledringing
past participledringed
pastdringed
Noun
pluraldrings

Origin of dring

Dialectal variant of thring.

Words formed from dring

Questions about dring

What does dring mean?
Dring means to press; squeeze; crowd; push.
What part of speech is dring?
Dring can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of dring?
The past tense of dring is dringed.

Words near dring in the dictionary

  1. drincc
  2. drinck
  3. drincks
  4. driness
  5. drinesses
  6. dring
  7. Dringhouses
  8. dringing
  9. drings
  10. Drinisiadar
  11. drink

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