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• driver

  [from slave driver] n. 1. Obs. [Car.] a slave driver: 1800. A Negro man who has for many years been
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• drive

  [Car.; cf. Krio drab idem (Hancock p.c.)] v.t. to drive away: 1918 You gwine see one or cat. Don't drive
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• drissle

  [cf. Krio drisul drizzle, light rain KED] v. to drizzle (rain): It wanna rain—it fair drisslin' (Eleu.)
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• drink

  v. 1. [MCC, SA idem; cf. Bemba ukunwa umuti to take (lit, drink) medicine (M. Mann p.c.)] to take (medicine,
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• drift lumber

  n. drift wood used for construction: 1977 (Albury 17). (Gen.)
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• driffs

  [from drift] n. flotsam; useful articles washed up on the beach (Fernander 1980). (San Sal.)
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• dressing

  [Krio idem KED] n. attire: Hitian dressing. (Nassau)
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• dress down/up

  [Car.; DJE "transf. from military use (an order to a line of drilling men to move sidewise until each has
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• dress down

  [Gul. idem (Writers' Program 1940:16); cf. interchangeability of particles in other Eng. v. phr., e.g. slow up/down, burn up/down] v.
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• dress (2)

  [OED, to cultivate (a field)] v. to protect (crops) with a magic charm: 1918 Fixin' or dressin' fields against thieves
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