drant

From Scots drant, draunt (“droning or drawling tone”), borrowed from Scottish Gaelic dranndan, draundan (“hum, buzzing, complaint, growl, snarl”), akin to Irish dranntan (“hum, buzzing, growl”).

drant (third-person singular simple present drants, present participle dranting, simple past and past participle dranted)

1. (Scotland, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To drawl; to drone.

drant (plural drants)

1. (Scotland, dialect) A droning tone.

• “drant”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).

• Arndt, trDNA