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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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