drott

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

drott (plural drotts)

1. 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-kvaett

From Old Norse dróttinn.

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

1. (archaic) lord

• “drott” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse dróttinn.

• IPA^(key): /drɔtː/

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

1. (archaic) lord

• “drott” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• drotte
• drotten (very rare)

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

1. (archaic) king, ruler
2. (archaic) lord; nobility just below the king

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

• drott in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)