dragger
Americannoun
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any of various small motor trawlers operating off the North Atlantic coast of the United States.
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a person or thing that drags.
Etymology
Origin of dragger
Example Sentences
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The state said it’s making 10 dragger licenses available and four licenses available for divers.
From Washington Times • Sep. 16, 2020
This litany of death has me asking the question Lucille Clifton asks in her poem "Jasper, Texas 1998": "who is the human in this place, / the thing that is dragged or the dragger?"
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2020
“He’s a foot dragger on everything,” said a former senior U.S. official who worked with Bossert in the White House.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2018
That cable network has so stretched its storytelling style over the last decade or so that its transition from documentaries to mini-series looks like those charts that show evolution from knuckle dragger to modern man.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2015
A green and orange dragger, black in the night, grumbled and drummed past their balcony, not thirty feet from their wedding bed.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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