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It is in a sentence said by an old man who is speaking to a group of children.

おめえらは **だまっとれ** ！

I think it should be an imperative form of 「黙る」 but I found, in an online
dictionary, that the form is written as 「黙れ」.

Is this word in a form of a certain dialect?
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What does the word 「だまっとれ」mean?
There is another subsidiary verb, おる, in its imperative form.

黙っておる can be contracted to 黙っとる (see [this
chart](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/18159/5010)).

おる is mainly used to make a humble expression, but it's also used as an
arrogant, dialectal or a bit old-fashioned version of simple いる.

> [お・る〔をる〕【▽居る】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/34019/meaning/m0u/)  
>  ㋑「いる」の古風な、または尊大な言い方。また、「いる」に比べて方言的な響きを帯びる。「君はそこに―・ったのか」「都会にはセミも―・らんようになった」

So it just means "Keep silent!"
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The other answers are mainly correct, but they leave out the part that this is
usage of `黙っとる` or `黙っとれ` are still common in certain dialects, mainly western
Japan. Some say the dividing line is somewhere between Shizuoka prefecture and
Aichi prefecture. Once you go west of Aichi prefecture you hear the とる form a
lot, like in phrases as 知っとる (知っている) or やっとる (やっている). Basically, in 標準語 the
`おる` form has been replaced by `いる` but remains in dialects still.

However, Japanese has a lot of different ways of saying that expression. For
example:

`黙ってろ`

`黙っとき`

`黙っとけ`

`黙っとりゃあ`

`黙りなさい`

Some of these are dialectical and have slightly different use cases.
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