The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to DRAG

 

DRAG		To go on the drag; to follow a cart or waggon, in order to rob it.
DRAG LAY		Waiting in the streets to rob carts or waggons.
DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL		One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern.
DRAGOONING IT		A man who occupies two branches of one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the soldier of that denomination, he serves in a double capacity. Such is a physician who furnishes the medicines, and compounds his own prescriptions.
FLAP DRAGON		A clap, or pox.
LAG		A man transported. The cove was lagged for a drag. The man was transported for stealing something out of a waggon.
RIDING ST GEORGE		The woman uppermost in the amorous congress, that is, the dragon upon St. George. This is said to be the way to get a bishop.
ROGUM POGUM, or DRAGRUM POGRAM		Goat's beard, eaten for asparagus; so called by the ladies who gather cresses, etc. who also deal in this plant.
SNAP DRAGON		A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins.
STRETCH		A yard. The cove was lagged for prigging a peter with several stretch of dobbin from a drag; the fellow was transported for stealing a trunk, containing several yards of ribband, from a waggon.