Drag
Definition of Drag
| n. | 1. | A confection; a comfit; a drug. | | v. t. | 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. | | 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. | | 3. | To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. | | 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. | | 3. | To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. | | 4. | To fish with a dragnet. | | n. | 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. | | 5. | A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. | | 6. | 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). | | 7. | Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. | | 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. |
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