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▪ I. draggle, v.|ˈdræg(ə)l|
Also (5 ? drakel), 6–8 dragle, 6–9 Sc. draigle.
[Not certainly known before 16th c.; app. dim. and freq. of drag v.: cf. waggle, and see -le.]
1. trans. To wet or befoul (a garment, etc.) by allowing it to drag through mire or wet grass, or to hang untidily in the rain; to make wet, limp, and dirty.
[1499Promp. Parv. 129/2 Drabelyn (drakelyn, Pynson), paludo, traunlimo (sic).] 1513Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 76 Puire laboraris and byssy husband men Went wayt and wery draglyt in the fen. a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 361 Draiglit throw dirtie dubes and dykes. ― Sonnets lxvi, Draiglit in dirt. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. v. (Globe) 672/2 Draggled up to the waist. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. xi, The wet day draggles the tricolor. 1880Webb Goethe's Faust Pref. ii. 18 If she falls, she is not draggled in the mire.
†2. To drag or trail (through the dirt). Obs.
1714C. Johnson Country Lasses ii. i, Here you have dragled me a long way. 1723State of Russia II. 79 They take it by the Tail, and draggle it thrice round the Idol.
3. intr. (for refl.) To trail (on the ground), hang trailing. So † to draggle it.
c1594in Pollen Acts Eng. Martyrs (1891) 333 On the hurdle..one of his legs draggled on the ground as he was drawn. c1660Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 300 Masters gownes long, dragling on the ground. 1775S. J. Pratt Lib. Opinions (1783) IV. 16 [Man] draggles it on foot upon the polluted earth. 1815Lady Granville Lett. 5 Sept. (1894) I. 78 Flounces draggling. 1859G. W. Dasent Pop. Tales fr. Norse 356 Such..long wool, it hung down and draggled after him on the ground.
4. intr. To come on or follow slowly and in a straggling train.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 477 The spies came dragling in after in base attire. a1598R. Rollock Wks. (Wodrow Soc.) II. xxxii. 389 He that draigled behind will be before thee. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 209 With heavy hearts they draggled at the heels of his troop. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 205 Some beasts of burden which had lagged behind..came draggling in one after the other.
Hence ˈdraggling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1598R. Rollock Wks. (Wodrow Soc.) II. xxxii. 389 A draigling person. Ibid., He or she that will persevere in draigling. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 449 His draggling tail hung in the dirt. 1840Thackeray George Cruikshank (1869) 304 My lady with the ermine tippet and draggling feather. 1886Manch. Exam. 6 Jan. 5/2 After the Speaker is chosen, several days will pass in draggling fashion.
▪ II. draggle, n. rare.
[f. prec. vb.]
1. The action of draggling.
1894S. A. Brooke Tennyson x. 330 The dull coarseness and the draggle of the last days of luxury and adultery.
2. One who draggles. Sc.
1806Train Poet. Reveries 64 (Jam.) To her came a rewayl'd draggle. |