Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The driver of a drag or coach.
- noun A thief who follows carriages to cut away luggage from behind.
- noun One engaged in dragging a a river, lake, pond, harbor, or the like, in search of something.
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Examples
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"riatta" over their heads, he had them as much under his command as ever a crack dragsman had his four-in-hand in the good old coaching times of my own dear England.
California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts Henry Vizetelly 1857
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