draggle
English
Verb
draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled)
- to make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground
- 1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems, "The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk":
- […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:
- The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.
- 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones
- [If] it be too long it draggles on the ground and gets under foot and is very troublesome.
- 1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems, "The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk":
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