Definition of drag

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Drag (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..

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Tump :: Tump (v. t.) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed..
Drag :: Drag (v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.
Mandrake :: Mandrake (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region..
Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill..
Bodrage :: Bodrage (n.) A raid.
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
Madrague :: Madrague (n.) A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.
Draconin :: Draconin (n.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.
Drawnet :: Drawnet (n.) A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet..
Snake :: Snake (v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Water Deck :: Water deck () A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
Snapdragon :: Snapdragon (n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon..
Dragonnade :: Dragonnade (n.) The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade..
Dragging :: Dragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dra.
Draggle :: Draggle (v. t.) To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail..
Flask :: Flask (n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc..
Prolonge :: Prolonge (n.) A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes..
Bordraging :: Bordraging (n.) An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.
Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
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