thring

• dring (dialectal)

From Middle English thringen, from Old English þringan (“to press, squeeze, crowd”), from Proto-West Germanic *þringwan, from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną (“to press, throng, crush”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat, hew, press”).

thring (third-person singular simple present thrings, present participle thringing, simple past thrang or thrung or thringed, past participle thrung or thringed)

1. (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To thrust; crowd; press; squeeze.
2. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To push; to force one's way.

• (crowd): mass, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble
• (squeeze): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress

• thrang
• throng