DRAG (in Angling). A piece of iron with four hooks placed back to back, to which a line is fastened; useful to the angler, only to save an entangled line, or when it slips off his rod.
Harewood, Harry. A Dictionary of Sports. London: T. Tegg and son, 1835.
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