dragger

1. 1.

   someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something

   Synonymspullertugger

   Broaderworker
2. 2.

   a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish

   Synonymstrawler

   Broaderfishing boat

Other forms of dragger

plural

draggers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dragger

What does dragger mean?

dragger means "someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dragger?

dragger has 2 syllables: drag-ger. The stress falls on "drag".

What is another word for dragger?

Close synonyms include puller, tugger, trawler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dragger a common word?

dragger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.