droke

A surname.

An alley.

Off the main thoroughfare of West Street were a number of small roads and alleys, which were often called 'drokes', although this rather archaic description quite passed me by at the time. […] One of the aforementioned drokes — or call it what you will — still exists today, at Adelaide Place, […]

A narrow valley with steep sides, sometimes with a stream.

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[…]

A thick grove or belt of trees, especially in (and stretching across) a valley.

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[…]