Sea anchor: alternatives and connections

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, e…

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yar…

A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body

A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.

A hook or drag; a grapnel.

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.

Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.

Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.