drag driver (dragdri"ver)

One who drives in the stragglers of a herd of cattle. [Western U. S.] The rest [of the cowboys] are in the rear to act as drag drivers, and hurry up the phalanx of reluctant weaklings. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 862. dragée (dra-zhā'), n. [F.: see dredge2 .] A sugarplum; in phar . , a sugar-coated medicine. Dunglison. dragenallt, n. A dredger. dragger (drag'er), n. One who drags. draggle (drag'l), v.; pret. and pp. draggled, ppr. draggling. [Early mod. E. (cf. ME. drakelyn, var. of drabelyn, drabble, in Prompt. Parv.), freq. of drag: see drag, v. Cf. drawl, similarly related to draw.] I. trans. 1. To drag or draw along on damp ground or mud, or on wet gra ; drabble. With draggled nets down hanging to the tide. Trench, Herring-Fishers of Lochfyne. 2. To wet or befoul, as by dragging the garments through dew, mud, or dirt. She's got from the pond, and draggled up to the waist like a mermaid. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, v. Yesterday was a very bad, draggling day, and Paris is not pleasant at such a time. Sydney Smith, To Mrs. Sydney Smith. A bough of brier-rose, whose pale blo oms sweet Were draggled in the dust. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, II. 219. II. in trans. To be drawn along the ground so as to become wet or dirty. His draggling tail hung to the dirt, Which on his rider he would flirt. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. i. 449.