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Definition of Dragger

1. Noun. Someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something.

2. Noun. A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish.

Definition of Dragger

1. Noun. Something that drags ¹

2. Noun. (nautical) A trawler ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dragger

1. one that drags [n -S] - See also: drags

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dragger

drag sails drag strip drag the chain drag through the mud drag up dragbar dragbars dragee dragees drageoir

drageoirs draggable dragge dragged dragged on dragger (current term) draggers draggier draggiest dragging

dragging on dragging the chain draggingly draggings draggle draggle-tail draggle-tailed draggle-tails draggled draggles

Literary usage of Dragger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flesh & Spirit: A Novel by George James Atkinson Coulson (1876)
"But Miss Keith swallowed dragger without winking. It may be noted here, that she spoke two distinct languages. One, her habitual tongue, fairly pure English ..."

2. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"29, saye, ' I fancy the word dragger is confined to the Welsh border, and I take it to ... This would be exactly synonymous with the term dragger as used by ..."

3. The Bystander; Or Leaves for the Lazy by Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1901)
"with its dragger sporting a brilliant lamp on his forehead. ... Hope my dragger is a man to be trusted— willing and able. Wonder what his name is ? ..."

4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"_ Sometimes, in passing another Bath-chair, ABLE gets into conversation with a brother dragger, and I find myself side by side with a fellow sufferer, ..."

5. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1831)
"... a dragger, would not amount to more than one half of the expense of horse-power, provided the steam dragger could ha?e constant and regular employment. ..."

6. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1831)
"... a dragger, would not amount to more than one half of the expense of horse-power, provided the steam dragger could have constant and regular employment. ..."

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