| • | A confection; a comfit; a drug. |
| • | To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground
by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or
resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the
ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in
fishing. |
| • | To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to
harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water;
hence, to search, as by means of a drag. |
| • | To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
pain or with difficulty. |
| • | To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to
trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the
sea, as an anchor that does not hold. |
| • | To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. |
| • | To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. |
| • | To fish with a dragnet. |
| • | The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. |
| • | A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. |
| • | A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. |
| • | A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. |
| • | A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. |
| • | Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress,
or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped
mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below). |
| • | Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
carriage wheel. |
| • | Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to
progress or enjoyment. |
| • | Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged. |
| • | The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being
the cope. |
| • | A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft
stone. |
| • | The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under
sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between
the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See
Citation under Drag, v. i., 3. |
Here is the answer for the: Bummer crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on December 27 2024 Eugene Sheffer Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Bummer has a total of 4 letters.