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dragsman
dragsman (ˈdrægzmən) 1. The driver of a drag or coach.1812 Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 284 He slanged the dragsman..which means that he sneaked away from the coach, without even apologizing for his want of means of paying. 1840 Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story i, He had..a nod for the shooter or guard, and a...
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The Right-Hand Man
Lord Ironminster was a renowned and daring dragsman until he lost his right arm and his father in an accident.
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1843 Grand National
At the bank before the Melling Road, Peter Simple refused and in doing so carried out Vanguard and Goblin, leaving Nimrod in the lead from Dragsman. Vanguard overhauled him in the run in to win by two lengths with Dragsman a close third.
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drag
▪ I. drag, v. (dræg) Also 5–6 dragge. [Not known before 15th c. A derivative of OE. draᵹan, or ON. draga (Sw. draga, Da. drage) to draw. Perh. a special northern dialect-form in which the g has been preserved instead of forming a diphthong with the prec. a, as in English generally: cf. Jos. Wright, ...
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shooter
shooter (ˈʃuːtə(r)) Forms: α. 3 ssetare, 4 ssyetere, schetor, scheotere, sheeter, shetere, 5 schetare, scheter(e, sheter; β. 4 schot(t)er, 4–6 shoter, 5–6 schuter, Sc. schutar, 6 shewter, Sc. schuiter, schutur, 7 shootter, 6– shooter. [f. shoot v. + -er1.] I. One who shoots. 1. a. One who shoots wit...
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slang
▪ I. † slang, n.1 Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 6 slaing. [a. MDu. or MLG. slange (Du. slang, G. schlange) serpent, cannon, etc.] A species of cannon; a serpentine or culverin. (Cf. sling n.2)1521 Ld. Dacre in Archaeologia XVII. 205 A Saker, two Faucons,..viij. small Serpentyns.., a grete Slaing of Irn. 153...
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spring
▪ I. spring, n.1 (sprɪŋ) Forms: 1, 3– spring, 2, 4–7 springe; 1, 4–6 spryng(e, 3–4 sprung, 4 sprenge, 6 spreng. [OE. spring and spryng masc., formed respectively from the primary and weak grades of the stem spring-, sprang-, sprung-: see spring v., from which a number of the later senses are directl...
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