·vi To fish with a dragnet.
II. Drag ·noun A confection; a comfit; a drug.
III. Drag ·vt A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
IV. Drag ·vi To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
V. Drag ·vt The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
VI. Drag ·vt A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
VII. Drag ·vt Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
VIII. Drag ·vt A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
IX. Drag ·vt The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
X. Drag ·vt Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
XI. Drag ·vt Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
XII. Drag ·vt To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
XIII. Drag ·vi To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
XIV. Drag ·vt A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
XV. Drag ·vt A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, ·etc.
XVI. Drag ·vt 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).
XVII. Drag ·vi 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.
XVIII. Drag ·vt 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.
XIX. Drag ·vt 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, ·vi, 3.
XX. Drag ·vt 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.