d. 1625. Fletcher, How our St. George’s will be stride the dragons!
The red and ramping dragons!
To water the dragon, verb. phr. (common).—To urinate; ‘pump ship;’
‘rack off.’
Dragsman.—A coachman; also a Drag-sneak (q.v.).
1832. Egan, Book of Sports, p. 2. The Swell dragsman or in plain
English a well-dressed stage coachman.
1851. H. Mayhew, Lon. Lab. and Lon. Poor, IV., 332. This locality
is much infested with pickpockets and also with dragsmen, i.e.,
those persons who steal goods or luggage from carts and coaches.
Drag-Sneak, subs. (old).—A thief who makes a speciality of robbing
vehicles.—[See Drag, sense 1.] Also Dragsman and Dragger, see quot.,
1781.
1781. G. Parker, View of Society, II., 151. Draggers [named and
described in].
1856. H. Mayhew, Gt. World of London, p. 46. Belonging to the first
variety, or those who sneak off with goods, are drag-sneaks, who
make off with goods from carts or coaches.
Drag the Pudding, verb. phr. (tailors’).—To ‘get the sack’ just before
Christmas-time.
Drain, subs. (common).—A drink. For synonyms, see Go. To do a drain,
wet (q.v.), or Common Sewer (q.v.) = to take a friendly drink.
1835. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, p. 106. Those two old men who came
in just to have a drain, finished their third quartern a few
seconds ago.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 2 July, p. 5, col. 3. The drinking portion
of the Americans are excessively partial to perpendicular drains of
cocktails and other drams with more or less preposterous names.