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Webster's English Dictionary

drag

n. [See 3d Dredge.] A confection; a comfit; a drug. (Chaucer.)

v. t. [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. See Draw.]1. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. ()

Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. (Denham.)

The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. (Tennyson.)

A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. (Pope.)

2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag. ()

Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. (Tennyson.)

3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. ()

Have dragged a lingering life. ( Dryden.)

To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship. ()

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v. i. 1. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold. ()

2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. ()

The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. (Byron.)

Long, open panegyric drags at best. ( Gay.)

3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. ()

A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. (Russell.)

4. To fish with a dragnet. ()

n. [See Drag, v. t., and cf. Dray a cart, and 1st Dredge.]1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. ()

2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. ()

3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. ()

4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. (Thackeray.)

5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. ()

6. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below). ()

My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. (J. D. Forbes.)

7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. ( Hazlitt.)

8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. ()

9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. ()

10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3. ()

Drag sail (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc. -- Drag twist (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes. ()