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.

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.

To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

Originally used ( I ) in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to mean DRessed As Girl, referring to male actors playing female roles. Now (2) mainly used by gender benders and cross-dressers of both directions to mean "in women's clothes". Less frequently used, Drab means DRessed As Boy.

Wearing the clothing of another gender, often exaggerating stereotypical characteristics of that gender.

Dressed As A Girl. A male who is dressed in womens clothing can be said to be "in drag." This term has been in use for centuries. Attributed to William Shakespeare.

To fish with a dragnet.

A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

(1) Term used to describe on fly that is not drag free or dead drifting (not drifting with the natural speed and direction of the current.) Drag is usually bad, though at times useful (such as imitating the actions of the adult caddis or when swinging a fly). (2) Resistance applied to the reel spool to prevent it from turning faster than the line leaving the spool (used in playing larger fish). When this type of drag comes into play, it's a good thing. It just means it's game time.

Unnatural fly movement caused by the currant pulling the fly line.

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

A rectangular iron flask that is placed under the cope that holds the plaster model in the sand.

The bottom half of a mold used to make castings in a foundry.

lower half of flask used in sand casting.

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.

To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"

Something depressing

something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"

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

persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"

Drain valve Drilling fluid

Occurs when a valve does not close completely after popping and remains partly open until the pressure is further reduced. ( 055)

A situation in which the valve remains partially open after popping until the pressure further decreases.

The scent left behind by a mink or hare.

A trail prepared by dragging along the ground a bag impregnated (usually) with animal scent.

The scent line left by a fox when it returns to its bed after a night's hunting on its own account.