These are the meanings of the letters GARDY when you unscramble them.
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Drag (n.)
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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Drag (v. t.)
To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
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Drag (v. t.)
To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
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Drag (v. t.)
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
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Drag (v. i.)
To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
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Drag (v. i.)
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
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Drag (v. i.)
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
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Drag (v. i.)
To fish with a dragnet.
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Drag (v. t.)
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
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Drag (v. t.)
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
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Drag (v. t.)
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
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Drag (v. t.)
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
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Drag (v. t.)
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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Drag (v. t.)
Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
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Drag (v. t.)
Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
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Drag (v. t.)
Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
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Drag (v. t.)
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
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Drag (v. t.)
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
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Drag (v. t.)
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
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Drag (v. t.)
The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
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Dray (n.)
A squirrel's nest.
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Dray (n.)
A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
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Dray (n.)
A kind of sledge or sled.
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Gray (superl.)
White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
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Gray (superl.)
Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
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Gray (superl.)
Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
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Gray (n.)
A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
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Gray (n.)
An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
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Yard (v. i.)
A rod; a stick; a staff.
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Yard (v. i.)
A branch; a twig.
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Yard (v. i.)
A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
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Yard (v. i.)
A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
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Yard (v. i.)
The penis.
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Yard (v. i.)
A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
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Yard (n.)
An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
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Yard (n.)
An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
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Yard (v. t.)
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.