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单词 drail
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drailn.

/dreɪl/
Etymology: < drail v.1
1. A fish-hook and line weighted with lead to enable it to be dragged at a depth in the water; also, the weighted hook, and the weight, which is a conical piece of lead placed round the shank of the hook. (U.S.)
ΚΠ
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. ix. 35 These Macrills are taken with drailes which is a long small line, with a lead and hooke at the end of it.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 195 Jigs and drails for the capture of cod, weakfish, Spanish mackerel, bass, bluefish, and dolphin.
1894 Youth's Compan. 22 Nov. 562/4 To whirl the lines..armed with weighted hooks called ‘drails’.
2. A long, trailing head-dress. Obsolete. rare.
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1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 25 It is no marvell they weare drailes on the hinder part of their heads.
3. Part of a plough: see quot. local.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > part to which draught attached
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1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 263 Drail, the iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw, and which has teeth to set the furrow wider or narrower.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 161 The drail, by which they are now commonly attached, being at a.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

drailv.1

Forms: Also drayl(e.
Etymology: apparently an altered form of trail v.1, influenced by draw, drag, draggle.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To drag or trail along.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > along a surface or behind
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1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros ii. x. 33 First would I sterue myselfe..Or these rude chufs should drayle me through their tayles.
a1644 B. Twyne Musterings Univ. Oxf. in T. Hearne Chronicon Prioratus de Dunstaple (1733) II. 765 The pike men drayled their pikes on the ground.
1664 H. More Antidote Idolatry To Rdr. He returned..drailing his sheephook behinde him.
2. intransitive. To trail, draggle, move laggingly.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > follow slowly
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1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie i, in Annales 259 Neither going too hastily before the horsemen, nor drailing after.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1737) VI. xii. 449 Unless we have also a continual care to keep it from drailing in the dirt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

drailv.2

/dreɪl/
Etymology: < drail n.
U.S.
intransitive. To fish with a drail.
ΚΠ
1636 A. Shurt Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 570 Richard Foxwill..spake with a boate of ours (draylinge for mackrell).
1873 Rep. U.S. Bureau Fisheries i. xiv. 248 The usual method of taking them [sc. bluefish] with the line is by drailing or trolling.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 180 It is not known when the custom of drailing for mackerel was first introduced.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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