droke
\ drohk \ , noun;
1.Canadian (chiefly Atlantic Provinces and Northwest Territories) . a valley with steeply sloping sides.
Quotes:
No one was privy to the goings-on at the house in the droke , though there was plenty of speculation about the rituals being performed to rid Mrs. Gallery of the cross her husband had become.
-- Michael Crummey, "Galore," 2009
We had a boil-up in a droke —a sheltered bunch of trees. We walked for another hour. At the edge of a frozen bog they pointed to a grey-and-white caribou stag.
-- Michael Winter, "The Big Why," 2004
Origin:
Droke is a Canadian dialectic term that has been used since the late 1700s.
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