drott

See also: drótt

English

From the name of the Drott Manufacturing Company, founded by Edward Drott in 1916.

drott (plural drotts)

An earthmoving machine similar to a bulldozer, but with a front bucket that can be used for scooping and lifting soil, rather than merely pushing it.
- 1969, Nan Bowie, Mick Bowie: the Hermitage Years, page 158:
  The drivers of bulldozers, drotts, and other types of mechanical shovels worked long hours in appalling weather.

drott m (definite singular drotten, indefinite plural drotter, definite plural drottene)

drott m (definite singular drotten, indefinite plural drottar, definite plural drottane)

From Old Swedish drotin (with -in interpreted as the definite suffix), from Old Norse dróttinn, from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz. Related to dryg (lasting, heavy).

drott c

Declension of drott

This table shows modern forms. Until the 19th century the plural could be formed with -er instead of -ar.