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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 465 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DRAG (from the Old Eng. dragan, to draw; the word preserves the g which phonetically See also:developed into w)  , that which is See also:drawn or pulled along a See also:surface, or is used for See also:drawing or pulling . The See also:term is thus applied to a See also:harrow for breaking up clods of See also:earth, or for an apparatus, such as a grapnel, See also:net or dredge, used for searching See also:water for drowned bodies or other See also:objects . As a name of a vehicle, "See also:drag" is sometimes used as See also:equivalent to " break," a heavy See also:carriage without a See also:body used for training horses, and also a large See also:kind of wagonette, but is more usually applied to a privately owned four-See also:horse See also:coach for four-in-See also:hand See also:driving . The word is also given to the " See also:shoe " of See also:wood or See also:iron, placed under the See also:wheel to See also:act as a See also:brake, and also to the " See also:drift " or " See also:sea-See also:anchor," usually made of spars and sails, employed for checking the See also:lee-way of a See also:ship when drifting . In See also:fox-See also:hunting, the " drag " is the See also:line of See also:scent See also:left by the fox, but more particularly the term is given to a substitute for the hunting of a fox by hounds, an artificial line of scent being laid by the dragging of a bag of aniseed or other strong smelling substance which a See also:pack will follow .

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