Definition of drag

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Drag (v. t.) 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)..

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Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing..
Daggle-tail :: Daggle-tail (n.) A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
Bedraggling :: Bedraggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedraggl.
Snapdragon :: Snapdragon (n.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) 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..
Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman..
Dragon's Blood :: Dragon's blood () Alt. of Dragon's tai.
Scrophulariaceous :: Scrophulariaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of gamopetalous plants (Scrophulariaceae, or Scrophularineae), usually having irregular didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia..
Dragman :: Dragman (n.) A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To pull or draw with force; to drag.
Dragnet :: Dragnet (n.) A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing..
Calamus :: Calamus (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood..
Dragged :: Dragged (imp. & p. p.) of Dra.
Draggle-tail :: Draggle-tail (n.) A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
Trawl :: Trawl (n.) A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom..
Drag :: Drag (n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.
Dragging :: Dragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dra.
Fox :: Fox (n.) The European dragonet.
Dragoon :: Dragoon (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
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