Word Meanings - DRAGGLE-TAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Related words: (words related to DRAGGLE-TAIL)

• DRABBLER
  A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
• TRAILER
  One who, or that which, trails.
• SLATTERNLINESS
  The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.
• DRABBLE
  To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.
• SLATTERNLY
  Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.
• TRAIL
  To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle. 4. To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. Longfellow. I presently perceived
• DRABBLE-TAIL
  A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.
• TRAIL ROPE
  See ABOVE
• TRAILING EDGE
  A following edge. See Advancing edge, above.
• SLATTERN
  A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
• TRAILING
  a. & vb. n. from Trail. Trailing arbutus. See under Arbutus. -- Trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. -- Trailing
• MITRAILLEUR
  One who serves a mitrailleuse.
• BREASTRAIL
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• ENTRAIL
  To interweave; to intertwine. Spenser.
• PENETRAIL
  Penetralia. Harvey.
• BEDRABBLE
  To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.
• MITRAILLE
  Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
• ENTRAILS
  interaneum, pl. interanea, intestine, interaneus inward, interior, 1. The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines. 2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails
• MITRAILLEUSE
  A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.
• DISENTRAIL
  To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.