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Drag   /dræg/   Listen
verb
Drag  v. t.  (past & past part. dragged; pres. part. dragging)  
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." "The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down." "A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along."
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."
3.
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. "Have dragged a lingering life."
To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship.
Synonyms: See Draw.


Drag  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." "Long, open panegyric drags at best."
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."
4.
To fish with a dragnet.


noun
Drag  n.  A confection; a comfit; a drug. (Obs.)


Drag  n.  
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. (Collog.)
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."
7.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk."
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.





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"Drag" Quotes from Famous Books



... what love means, and he'd take that fair creature, and drag her through the dirt, and subject her to the scorn of hardened aristocrats, and crush her spirits, and break her heart,—just because her father has scraped together a mass of gold. But I,—I wouldn't let the wind blow on her too harshly. I despise her father's ...
— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope
... increased considerably, and travelling so much quicker, he found it required all his dexterity to steer past the islands and clear the banks upon which he was drifting. Once or twice he grazed the willows that overhung the water, and heard the keel of the canoe drag on the bottom. As much as possible he bore away from the mainland, steering south-east, thinking to find deeper water, and to be free of the islets. He succeeded in the first, but the islets were now so numerous that ...
— After London - Wild England • Richard Jefferies
... declared the horse, with a contemptuous neigh. "Still, I don't care to drag any passengers. You'll ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.
... with the cheerful composure and steadiness of temper which he possessed in a remarkable degree. He was now more than 80 years old, and the cares of office had begun to weigh heavily upon him: the long-continued drag of the Transit of Venus work had wearied him, and he was anxious to carry on and if possible complete his Numerical Lunar Theory, the great work which for some years had occupied much of his time and attention. His ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy
... piece; and in conversation afterwards, Mr. Wise talked much of his CABIRI. As we returned to Oxford in the evening, I out-walked Johnson, and he cried out Suffiamina, a Latin word which came from his mouth with peculiar grace, and was as much as to say, Put on your drag chain. Before we got home, I again walked too fast for him; and he now cried out, "Why, you walk as if you were pursued by all the CABIRI in a body." In an evening, we frequently took long walks from Oxford into the country, returning to supper. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell


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