5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drag \Drag\, n. [See {Drag}, v. t., and cf {Dray} a cart, and
1st {Dredge}.]
1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc
3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also a kind
of low car or handcart; as a stone drag.
4. A heavy coach with seats on top also a heavy carriage.
[Collog.] --Thackeray.
5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
6.
a 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).
b Also a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
carriage wheel.
c Hence anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to
progress or enjoyment.
My lectures were only a pleasure to me and no
drag. --J. D.
Forbes.
7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged. ``Had a drag in his walk.'' -- Hazlitt.
8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper
part being the cope.
9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing
of soft stone.
10. (Marine Engin.) 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.
{Drag sail} (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout
frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in
order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting;
-- called also {drift sail}, {drag sheet}, {drag anchor},
{sea anchor}, {floating anchor}, etc
{Drag twist} (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for
cleaning drilled holes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drag \Drag\, v. i.
1. 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
2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
The day drags through though storms keep out the
sun. --Byron.
Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay.
3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back
A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the
vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can
propel her --Russell.
4. To fish with a dragnet.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drag \Drag\, n. [See 3d {Dredge}.]
A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drag \Drag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragged}; p. pr & vb n.
{Dragging}.] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw dragga to search with
a grapnel, fr dragg grapnel, fr draga to draw, the same
word as E. draw. ? See {Draw}.]
1. 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.
Dragged by the cords which through his feet were
thrust. --Denham.
The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag
thee down --Tennyson.
A needless Alexandrine ends the song That like a
wounded snake, drags its slow length along --Pope.
2. 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.
Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.
--Tennyson.
3. To draw along as something burdensome; hence to pass in
pain or with difficulty.
Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden.
{To drag an anchor} (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom
when the anchor will not hold the ship.
Syn: See {Draw}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
drag
n 1: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid [syn:
{retarding force}]
2: a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on
his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled
the smoke slowly" [syn: {puff}, {pull}]
3: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the
hill exhausted him"
v 1: pull as against a resistance; "The sleigh was drawn by four
reindeer"; "These worries were dragging at him"
2: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: {haul},
{cart}]
3: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of
action "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me
into this business" [syn: {embroil}, {tangle}, {sweep}, {sweep
up}, {drag in}]
4: move slowly and as if with great effort
5: to lag or linger behind: "But in so many other areas we
still are dragging." [syn: {trail}, {get behind}, {hang
back}, {drop behind}]
6: suck in or take as of air; "draw a deep breath"; draw on a
cigarette" [syn: {puff}, {draw}]
7: use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select
commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right
hand corner of the screen"
8: walk without lifting the feet [syn: {scuff}]
9: drag, usually the bottom of a body of water [syn: {dredge}]
10: persuade to to come away from something attractive or
interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"
11: proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged
on for two hours" [syn: {drag on}, {drag out}]
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