draggletailed

Sluttish, slovenly, untidy. drăg'-gled (gled as geld), pa. par.ora. [DRAG GLE.] "With draggled nets down hanging to the tide." Trench. drăg'-gling, pr. par., a. & s. [DRAGGLE, ν.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip.adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of making or becoming dirty by being dragged or trailed in the dirt. drăg-man, s. [Eng. drag, and man.) A fisher. man who usos a dragnet. "To which may be added the great riots, committed by the foresters and Welsh on the dragmen of Severn."Hale: Hist. Pleas of the Crown , ch. xiv., § 7. drăg-nět, s. [Eng. drag, and net.] I. Literally: 1. The same as DRAG, 8., A. 1. 2 (q. v.). 2. A net intended to be dragged or drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, ., for the taking of fish. and caught nothing, had a draught toward the even. "Some fishermen, that had been out with a dragnet , ing, which put them in hope of a sturgeon at last." L'Estrange . II. Fig .: A wide receptacle or receiver. "Whatsoever old Time, with his huge dragnet , has conveyed down to us along the stream of ages." Watts . drăg'-o-man, *drog'-man, s . [Sp. dragoman ; Port. drogoman; Ital. dragoman no; Low Lat. dragumanus , drogamandus ; O. Fr. drughemant , drugemen ; Fr. drogman , from Mediæv. Gr. dragou menos, from Arab. tarjumân an interpreter. A traveler's guide, interpreter, and agent; an interpreter attached to an emba y or consulate; a word of common use in Turkey, the Levant, . [TRUCHMAN, TARGUM.]