drash n Cp OED thrash sb¹ 2 'a beat or beating [of rain]' (1899-); cp EDD ~ v 'to thrash'; 'to thresh corn.' A heavy shower esp in phr a drash of rain.
   T 141/68-65² If you come in with a skiffload o' fish an' there's a drash o' rain last night, sails got to go abroad—you got to look out to they as well. C 70-15 [He was] caught in the biggest kind of a drash of rain.

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