Wilcox County was relatively young when the Civil War (1861-65) began, but its citizens supported the war effort by sending their sons and husbands to fight. Confederate president Jefferson Davis camped on May 8, 1865, at Abbeville during his flight through Wilcox County at the end of the war, two nights before his capture by Union forces in Irwinville.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Drain. drÄn, v.t. to draw off by degrees: to filter: to clear of water by drains: to make dry: to drink dry: to exhaust.âv.i. to flow off gradually.ân. a watercourse: a ditch: a sewer: (slang) a drink: exhausting expenditure.âadj.
Nautical. a drain at the edge of a deck exposed to the weather, for allowing accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges. Compare freeing port.