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118 , draught of the tide, a d. [drāg] o’ tide; gi’e [‘give’] de line plenty o’ (scope) for de d. o’ de tide ; b) backwash; the wash of waves upon the shore and the receding of the water, de d. [drāg] o’ de sea . 3) heavy downpour of rain; he is gaun [‘going’] to be a d. [drāg], we are going to have a downpour ., of dense, fine rain, differs from the above. — drag,, dragging, pulling, ; for the use of the word in connection with milking, see under , — In some of the old meanings of the word, only the anglicised forms “draw” and “draught”,, are now used in

drag$mo$ [drāg],, to draw; to pull (slowly), to move slowly, pronounced with a long a, different from “drag”. is now only used in certain phrases, as: de mill is [drāgɩn] and grindin [grɩndɩn], the mill is grinding quite slowly ( drawing and grinding). draga,, to drag; pull. , , is developed from “draga”, likewise as, but used some what from this word, “draw” is found anglicised in a few instances, deviating from and originating in meanings and applications from
 * see ,

†drag$1$ [dräg],, in the phrase “d. ”, to educate; rear; “I was no [‘not’] [drägət] op in Bressay”. For “draget op”, is also used “” [ɔp·dräg·ət]. — opdrage,,  “drag up” is used disparagingly: to bring up children badly or without care.

dragel(s) [drāgəl(s)], drachwel(s) [draχwəl(s)] and drawel(s) [drāwəl(s)], , the end of a boat’s keel where it curves upwards to the stem, = draghals. *drag-hals. The word in now, however,  denotes the fore-part or after-part of a false keel (keel-draught), strap on a boat’s keel, fore- and aft-d. : , The forms ending in -el, -wel have arisen from words in -els, -wels, the s has been mistaken for the sign and thus  dropped in the See “draught”,

drager [drāgər],, one of the runners over which a boat is dragged, tabu-word, used by fishermen for the common. *dragari (object by means of which or over which something is dragged). See and ,

dragg [drag(g)], drägg [dräg(g)] and drogg [drȯg(g)],, 1) close, fine rain, a d. o’ weet [‘wet’]. (dragg, drägg, drogg). (drogg). 2) in the  “doon [‘down’] -dragg” and “doon- [drȯggɩn]”: heavy rain, downpour, in a calm (in contrast to, ). : doon-dragg. SaSa. [sic]: doon-droggin. — May be dregg, , dregg and dreggjar , dregs ;  dreg,, a drop, a very small quantity of liquid. See and , — In Foula an extended form, [drȯg··əri·], is found as an intensive of : a mornin’ o’ “droggeri”, an unpleasant, rainy morning. — [dragəl] and [drɛgəl], “a d. o’ weet”, in meaning with, , are, however, (and ) draggle, draigle,, mire; drenching; wet, muddy condition; in written
 * draggle,

draglinn [drag·lɩn·],, one of the runners (linns) over which a boat is dragged. *drag-hlunnr. See ,

drags [drags],, to have one’s clothes trailing along, applied to a slatternly person, a woman; to geng ; also to walk slowly, as if dragging oneself along. ,