draggle

present singular third person draggles · participle present draggling · participle past draggled · past draggled

1. To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.

   […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]

   1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk”, in The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems

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   The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Chapter 22”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

   [If] it be too long it draggles on the ground and gets under foot and is very troublesome.

   1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “拖 (thoa)”, in A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 593