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- English Word Drag Definition To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- English Word Drag Definition 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.
- English Word Drag Definition To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- English Word Drag Definition To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- English Word Drag Definition To fish with a dragnet.
- English Word Drag Definition The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
- English Word Drag Definition A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
- English Word Drag Definition A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
- English Word Drag Definition A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
- English Word Drag Definition A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
- English Word Drag Definition 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).
- English Word Drag Definition Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- English Word Drag Definition Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- English Word Drag Definition Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- English Word Drag Definition The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
- English Word Drag Definition A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- English Word Drag Definition 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.
- English Word Dragantine Definition A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth.
- English Word Dragbar Definition Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink.
- English Word Dragbolt Definition A coupling pin. See under Coupling.