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

A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

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

The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

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

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 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.

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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 fish with a dragnet.