DRAGGING

dragging

(adjective) marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; “it was a strange dragging approach”; “years of dragging war”

DRAG

drag, drag on, drag out

(verb) proceed for an extended period of time; “The speech dragged on for two hours”

drag

(verb) persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; “He dragged me away from the television set”

puff, drag, draw

(verb) suck in or take (air); “draw a deep breath”; “draw on a cigarette”

dredge, drag

(verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

drag

(verb) pull, as against a resistance; “He dragged the big suitcase behind him”; “These worries were dragging at him”

haul, hale, cart, drag

(verb) draw slowly or heavily; “haul stones”; “haul nets”

scuff, drag

(verb) walk without lifting the feet

drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back

(verb) to lag or linger behind; “But in so many other areas we still are dragging”

drag

(verb) move slowly and as if with great effort

embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in

(verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; “They were swept up by the events”; “don’t drag me into this business”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

dragging (plural draggings)

An instance of something being dragged.

Verb

dragging

present participle of drag

Source: Wiktionary

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DRAG

Drag, n. Etym: [See 3d Dredge.]

Definition: A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragging.] Etym: [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. 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, 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, n. Etym: [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.

4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] Thackeray.

5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

6. (a) 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). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. J. D. Forbes.

7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." Hazlitt.

8. (Founding)

Definition: The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

9. (Masonry)

Definition: A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

10. (Marine Engin.)

Definition: 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. Drag sail (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc.

– Drag twist (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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