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Drag \Drag\, noun [See 3d {Dredge}.] A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


Drag \Drag\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dragging}.] [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.


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


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.

Syn: See {Draw}.


Drag \Drag\, verb (used without an object)



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

Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay.


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.


Drag \Drag\, noun [See {Drag}, verb (used with an object), and cf. {Dray} a cart, and 1st {Dredge}.]

1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.



4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] --Thackeray.

5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

6. (a) 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). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

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

7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." -- 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}, verb (used without an object), 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.




1: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid [syn: {drag}, {retarding force}]


3: something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"


5: a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly" [syn: {puff}, {drag}, {pull}]

6: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"



2: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: {haul}, {hale}, {cart}, {drag}]

3: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: {embroil}, {tangle}, {sweep}, {sweep up}, {drag}, {drag in}]

4: move slowly and as if with great effort

5: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" [syn: {drag}, {trail}, {get behind}, {hang back}, {drop behind}, {drop back}]



8: walk without lifting the feet [syn: {scuff}, {drag}]

9: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost [syn: {dredge}, {drag}]

10: persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"

11: proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours" [syn: {drag}, {drag on}, {drag out}]




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