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Definition of Dragging
1. Adjective. Marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner. "Years of dragging war"
Definition of Dragging
1. Verb. (present participle of drag) ¹
2. Noun. An instance of something being dragged. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dragging
1. drag [v] - See also: drag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dragging
Literary usage of Dragging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earth Roads by Charles Edward Morrison (1914)
"dragging Of all methods known to highway engineers for the purpose of ...
Road dragging is the simplest, most effective and inexpensive method for the ..."
2. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"When dragging immediately over ruts or down the center of the road after the ...
When the principal purpose of the dragging is lo increase the crown of the ..."
3. Topographical Drawing and Sketching: Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1886)
"Stippling and" dragging."—Stippling is the operation of laying a tint by dots
... dragging" consists in laying a ragged tint, by which irregular forms and ..."
4. The Rear-guard of the Revolution by James Roberts Gilmore (1888)
"Before morning of the same day—April 10, 1777— dragging Canoe himself, with a
considerable body of his warriors, stole upon Robertson's barn, ..."
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