| Drag (drag) |
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| Drag |
| [See 3d Dredge.] |
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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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.
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.
To draw along, as something burdensome;
hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
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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.
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or
slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold
back.
To fish with a dragnet.
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The act of dragging; anything which is
dragged.
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along
the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons,
etc.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy
bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone
drag.
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a
heavy carriage.
A heavy harrow, for breaking up
ground.
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).
Motion affected with slowness and
difficulty, as if clogged.
The bottom part of a
flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
A steel instrument for
completing the dressing of soft stone.
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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