drouth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a prolonged shortage
    drought.
    • when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought
  2. noun a shortage of rainfall
    drought.
    • farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season

WordNet

Drouth noun
Definitions
  1. Same as Drought. Sandys.
    Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon.
    One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton.
    In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

Webster 1913