A machine consisting of a sharp square frame of iron encircled with a net, and commonly used to rake the mud off from the platform or bottom of the docks, or to clean rivers, or for dragging on the bottom for anything lost. Also, a creeper.
·vi To fish with a dragnet. II. Drag ·noun A confection; a comfit; a drug. III. Drag ·vt A heavy h...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
To go on the drag; to follow a cart or waggon, in order to rob it. CANT. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Drag rope. ...
·add. ·- A guide rope. ...
Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons. ...
A trawl or net to draw on the bottom for flat-fish. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Those used in the artillery by the men in pulling the gun backwards and forwards in practice and in ...
Any sail with its clues stopped so as when veered away over the quarter to make a stop-water when ve...
A cross-cut saw. ...
The act of the anchors coming home. ...
The same as creep or sweep. ...