drash v also dresh. Cp EDD thresh, OED thresh v 8 'to throw oneself ... to and fro with violence' for sense (a). (a) To go around in lively fashion visiting; cp CRUISE V; (b) to inundate, pour over; to exhaust (someone).
   1895 J A Folklore viii, 28 Dresh: to go round visiting. A man said of a minister, 'He's na'ar a bit of good for dreshing round.' 1971 CASEY 182 The women and the children stood on the quarter deck, / A heavy sea drashed over them, and swept them from the wreck. C 71-90 If a boy was late for supper, his mother would say on his coming home, 'Ah, you're drashed to pieces.' This meant running till you were very tired and hungry.

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