Definition of drag

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Drag (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel..

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Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea..
Bidet :: Bidet (n.) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
Hesperides :: Hesperides (n. pl.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides..
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..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged..
Dragonet :: Dragonet (n.) A little dragon.
Dragging :: Dragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dra.
Calvessnout :: Calvessnout (n.) Snapdragon.
Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
Drag :: 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)..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
Drabble-tail :: Drabble-tail (n.) A draggle-tail; a slattern.
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..
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there..
Draglink :: Draglink (n.) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
Mandrake :: Mandrake (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region..
Shuffling :: Shuffling (a.) Moving with a dragging, scraping step..
Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing..
Dragomans :: Dragomans (pl. ) of Dragoma.
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