Plural of dram

Forms of dram

Drams in a sentence

• The rolling stock, consisting entirely of four-wheel open trucks, or drams, was broken up at Bonvilles Court Colliery.1946 November and December, “The Saundersfoot Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 340
• Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy's ducats.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II…. From the entry usquebaugh
• Amuta and the twelve-year-old have produced calabashes of palm wine and are busy pouring out healthy drams into the cupped hands of black and white alike.1981, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “The Niger”, in Water Music, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, →ISBN; republished London: Granta Books…. From the entry calabash

Meaning of dram

1. noun Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
2. noun Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
3. noun Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.

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Questions about the plural of dram

What is the plural of dram?

The plural of dram is drams.

Is dram countable?

Dram is a countable noun.