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The Meaning of drag
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(n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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(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.
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(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.
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(v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
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(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.
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(v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
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(v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
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(v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.
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(v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
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(v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
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(v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
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(v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
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(v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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(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).
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(v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
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(v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
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(v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
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(v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
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(v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
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(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.
Synonyms
retarding force
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puff
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pull
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haul
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hale
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cart
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embroil
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tangle
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sweep
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sweep up
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drag in
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trail
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get behind
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hang back
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drop behind
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drop back
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puff
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draw
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scuff
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dredge
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drag on
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drag out
Rhymes
ag
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bag
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bagg
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bagge
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blagg
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brag
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bragg
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bundestag
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clagg
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codag
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cragg
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dag
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fag
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fagg
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flag
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flagg
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gag
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gragg
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greylag
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hag
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hagg
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hagge
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handbag
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kragh
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lag
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mag
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mailbag
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montag
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nag
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plagge
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rag
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ragtag
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reflag
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saddlebag
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sag
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sandbag
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schlag
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schrag
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scrag
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scragg
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shag
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slag
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snag
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sontag
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sprag
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spragg
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stag
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stagg
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tag
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tagg
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tagge
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wag
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wagg
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wragg
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zag
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zig-zag