|Noah Webster's Dictionary|
1. (n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.
2. (v. t.) 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.
3. (v. t.) 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.
4. (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
5. (v. i.) 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.
6. (v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
7. (v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
8. (v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.
9. (n.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
10. (n.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
11. (n.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
12. (n.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
13. (n.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
14. (v. t.) 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).
15. (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
16. (v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
17. (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
18. (n.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
19. (n.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
20. (n.) 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 (19 Occurrences)
Matthew 4:18 And walking along the shore of the Lake of Galilee He saw two brothers--Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew--throwing a drag-net into the Lake; for they were fishers. (WEY YLT)
Mark 1:16 And, walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea, for they were fishers, (YLT)
Luke 12:58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. (WEB WEY ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
John 21:6 "Throw the net in on the right hand side," He said, "and you will find fish." So they threw the net in, and now they could scarcely drag it along for the quantity of fish. (WEY)
Acts 21:30 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut. (Root in WEB WEY ASV NAS RSV NIV)
Hebrews 6:19 That hope we have as an anchor of the soul--an anchor that can neither break nor drag. It passes in behind the veil, (WEY)
James 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? (WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 17:13 Moreover, if he withdraw himself into a city, then shall all Israel bring up ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the valley until there be not one small stone found there.' (See NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; who speak peace with their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts. (See NAS NIV)
Proverbs 21:7 The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice. (See JPS NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 12:5 yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors'shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: (See JPS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope, (See NAS)
Jeremiah 12:3 But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter. (DBY NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy. (See JPS YLT NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 39:2 and I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel; (See NIV)
Habakkuk 1:15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)