jan 1, 1686 - drownd
Description:
A common dialect spelling of drown. 1670 <i>found ... a tinker in a ditch, and a woman pulling him out, which woman exprest these wordes, that it was a good deed to suffer the man to drownd himselfe, for he had like to have killed her yesterday</i>, Whigift (SS40/219); 1686 <i>Tho. Rickaby for his dunghill & ditch at his back yates, complainte made a childe had like to have been drownded in it</i>, Bridlington (BCP282).Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1686
Now
~ 339 years ago