Add to ORKGdroke n'DROKE' In a poem submitted by a writer in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, and published in the January 22, 1944, issue of _Saturday Night_ (a Toronto, Canada, weekly) occurs in the following line: 'Ptarmigan sheltering in the leafless drokes.' _Droke_ is explained in an accompanying _gloss_ as a 'Cornish word still common in Newfoundalnd, meaning a thicket or copse.' This meaning is somewhat different from the one given in Newfoundland word list in _Dialect Notes,_ 5: 329: 'A cluster of fir or spruce.'For GMS & WK, from HH, June 20, 1971(Above reference copied _veratim et literatim_ for possible use by Dict. CentPUBLISHED SOURCE SETUsed I and SupUsed I and SupNot use