draggle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to trail on the ground; be or become draggled.
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to follow slowly; straggle.
verb
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to make or become wet or dirty by trailing on the ground; bedraggle
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(intr) to lag; dawdle
Etymology
Origin of draggle
Example Sentences
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Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat.
From Time Magazine Archive
As most of the actors draggle through their paces, it is plain that Novac and friends could easily outwit the lot of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
And why, pray, does it draggle this fashion?
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
The other forms, such as drabbe, dregg, and dragan, the b and v being analogous to E. draggle, drabble, draught, draft, all equally from dragan.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
Drail, drāl, n. the iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw: a piece of lead round the shank of the hook in fishing.—v.i. to draggle.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
He cut a short pole at the water’s edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
Fifteen months later, a battered, be draggled ghost ship, the Wolf again dodged through the British blockade and limped home to her base.
From Time Magazine Archive
There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
White flowers whirled like snow and her draggled hair streamed back from her face as she squinted against the draft.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
“We had to grow,” Alexandra hissed as she propped herself against the terminal, her dark hair a curtain draggling before her as she hung her head.
From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2019
Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that he took the job because he wanted to be on the side of victory.
From Time Magazine Archive
While there is life in bird or beast they will struggle from the death-play blindly, but the Collared Buck lay placidly still with the rain draggling his fur and his eyes staring.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by M. D. Haviland
The wolf, with the sheep's clothing draggling about his legs, could not run fast, and was detected and shot by one of the men.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
Therapia, draggling down the stony steep, like a heap of bangles on a brown-red cheek.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
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