Draftsman
(Drafts"man) n. See Draughtsman.
Drag
(Drag) n. [See 3d Dredge.] A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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.
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.
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.
