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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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
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
It goes right hard with her to draggle her skirts in the dewy strawberry beds; but she feels consoled when I fetch up the till!
From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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
The most splendidly angelic inspirations will not suffice to compensate the poet for feet that draggle in the mud, or stumble higgledy-piggledy among stony words, which his toes should have kissed into jewels.
From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis
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
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
Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He could scarcely believe the sight before him—Rome’s beautiful princess, her hair dirty, tangled, and uncombed, her clothes draggled and torn, her face thin and wild.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
“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
He might wander through the country unnoticed and unknown, while the whole nation were draggling after Mrs. Stowe's petticoat.
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward
My lady with the ermine tippet and draggling feather, can we not see that she lives in Portland Place, and is the wife of an East India Director?
From George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray
Nor are the long-haired breeds at their best draggling round in the wet, muddy streets of a city.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
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