Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strong chain attached to the front of the buffer-bar of a locomotive engine, to connect it with another engine or a tender; also, the chain attached to the drag-bar of goods-wagons or freight-cars.
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Examples
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Half an hour afterwards, as we were putting on our drag-chain to go down another steep hill – to my utter astonishment, Paddy, with his horses in full gallop, came rattling and chehupping past us.
Maria Edgeworth 1905
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The great drag-chain on the car of progress is the faltering inconsistency of man.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890
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Nevertheless, the architectural beauties of the palace-bordered street, looking as if mountains of marble must have been levelled to supply the materials for constructing it, detained him there two days: or rather a feat of resolution, by which he set himself to withstand the drag-chain of
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884
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Edward the Third, we should be disposed to class them with the most bigoted conservatives that ever threw a drag-chain around the limbs of a young and ardent people.
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The course suggested was, according to Viglius, but "a plaster for a wound, but a drag-chain for the wheel."
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The course suggested was, according to Viglius, but "a plaster for a wound, but a drag-chain for the wheel."
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 11: 1566, part II John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The course suggested was, according to Viglius, but "a plaster for a wound, but a drag-chain for the wheel."
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The course suggested was, according to Viglius, but "a plaster for a wound, but a drag-chain for the wheel."
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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'Has he got over his fatigue?' pursued the dogged Baronet, with a short, gritty laugh, that sounded like a loose drag-chain dangling against the stones.
The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Evelyn, wealthy enough, at least, to take from my wheels the drag-chain of disreputable debt.
Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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