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Drag \Drag\, n. [See 3d {Dredge}.]
A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Drag \Drag\, v. t. [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.
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Dragged by the cords which through his feet were
thrust. --Denham.
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The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag
thee down. --Tennyson.
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A needless Alexandrine ends the song
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length
along. --Pope.
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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.
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Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.
--Tennyson.
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3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
pain or with difficulty.
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Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden.
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{To drag an anchor} (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom
when the anchor will not hold the ship.

Syn: See {Draw}.
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Drag \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.
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2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
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The day drags through, though storms keep out the
sun. --Byron.
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Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay.
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3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
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A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the
vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can
propel her. --Russell.
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4. To fish with a dragnet.
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Drag \Drag\, n. [See {Drag}, v. t., and cf. {Dray} a cart, and
1st {Dredge}.]
1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
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2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
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3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
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4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
[Collog.] --Thackeray.
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5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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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.
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My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no
drag. --J. D.
Forbes.
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7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." -- Hazlitt.
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8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper
part being the cope.
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9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing
of soft stone.
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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.
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{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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