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drag definition and meaning
n.
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
v. i.
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
v. i.
To fish with a dragnet.
v. t.
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
v. t.
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
v. t.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
v. t.
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
v. t.
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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).
v. t.
Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
v. t.
Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
v. t.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
v. t.
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
v. t.
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
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.
Crossword clues for drag
- Acceleration contest: ... race
- Cross-dresser’s outfit
- Cross-dressing
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- Haul
- Hut blew away in a draught ... what a bore!
- Pull
- Pull along the ground
- Pull along with effort
- Something Boring
- Tow along
- Tow behind
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