Crossword clues for draggle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Draggle \Drag"gle\ (dr[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draggled
(dr[a^]g"g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Draggling
(dr[a^]g"gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of drag. [root]73. Cf. Drawl.]
To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass;
to drabble; to trail.
--Gray.
With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide.
--Trench.
Draggle \Drag"gle\, v. i.
To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being
dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass.
--Hudibras.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, frequentative of drag (v.). This led to draggle-tail "sloppy woman, woman whose skirts are wet and draggled" (1590s). Related: Draggled.
Wiktionary
vb. to make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground
Usage examples of "draggle".
The other was unknown to me, a draggle of a fellow of some age, a masty fellow who I saw to look after me in a way I did not like.
He and his six legions literally ran into a jostling mob of draggled men armed in a nonissue manner which betrayed that they were Spartacani.
At that same hour, Edward, the true king, hungry and thirsty, soiled and draggled, worn with travel, and clothed in rags and shreds his share of the results of the riot was wedged in among a crowd of people who were watching with deep interest certain hurrying gangs of workmen who streamed in and out of Westminster Abbey, busy as ants.
The sweet, resiny smell of the pines, for instance, and the way the clouds seemed so close - less like clouds than like draggles of whitish-gray smoke.
There were little splinters of wood sticking out of what was left of his face, Davey said, and pieces of shiny blue cloth in the draggles of his hair.
There were vast open tracts there, wide to the sky, meadows of the sort the gobblemoles prefer, where their draggling can be through soft soil.
The refrigerator door shuddered back and forth in the rising wind, the letters painted there beginning to drip and run now, taking on the draggling ominous look of a horror-movie poster.
The wallpaper, which showed runners of roses and elves wearing green caps, was falling away from the spongy plaster in draggling leaves.
Her hair was coming undone, draggling down in untidy strands, and her suit-jacket had come unbuttoned.
She staggered about to face him, her hands crooked instinctively into claws to tear at his face and eyes, her hair draggling down into her eyes, and one sleeve of her shirtwaist half torn off.
He was a frantic-looking young man with his bow tie draggling loose down his shirt front, and he yelled "Police!
He let out a long, draggling sigh, heard Brolly shift his feet uncomfortably, saw Timiny extend his hand tentatively to draw it back slowly, uncer tain how a gesture of sympathy would be received.
He let out a long, draggling sigh, heard Brolly shift his feet uncomfortably, saw Timiny extend his hand tentatively to draw it back slowly, uncertain how a gesture of sympathy would be received.
The thing hanging out of the trunk, a draggled and membranous white shading to dark green, looked as much like an Easter lily as anything else.
As the mutie woman flourished her limp, draggled prize, the last of the flagellants gave the loudest scream that Ryan had ever heard in his life.