droke

1. (dialectal, especially England, Newfoundland) A narrow valley with steep sides, sometimes with a stream.Examples: "I sent Fogarty forward to Foul-weather Droke to prepare for the night; while I walked to Condon Tickle and measured the breadth of it. I then went over Lower Table to the Droke; where I observed much old slot of deer, […]"; "And how dexterously he ascended the "sculpin highlands," climbed up Job's Cove Droke, toiled through the sands at Northern Bay, waded the Northern Gut, or plodded through Short's Marsh, would furnish a theme for conversation to the weary traveller, as he sat by the cheerful evening fire, and[…]"; "I tooked her [a gun] and the powder-harn and shot-bag and starts up yander through the droke. You know the little pond at the top of the hill. When I cumed in sigh' o' un, the first thing I see is a loo' (loon) sitting about the middle uv un."EnglandNewfoundlanddialectalespecially

2. (dialectal, especially Newfoundland) A thick grove or belt of trees, especially in (and stretching across) a valley.Examples: "In passing through a droke of woods they came up with a wigwam which they entered, and took three Indian females, which have since been found to be Mother and her two daughters. These women they brought to their own homes, where they kept them[…]"; "[…] over the range known to the Indians as the Kesoquit Hills, and to make my outside camps in a droke of woods amongst these mountains, and another still farther to the west in another droke on Shoe Hill Ridge, in the centre of Steve's trapping-ground. Steve had told me that the latter position commanded wide views for miles[…]"; "we lost sight of him entirely, as he entered a droke of woods where it was impossible to follow him any further."Newfoundlanddialectalespecially