daggle

Verb

daggle (third-person singular simple present daggles, present participle daggling, simple past and past participle daggled)

1. (intransitive) To drag or trail through water, mud, or slush
   • I ne'r vvith VVits and VVitlings paſt my days, / To ſpread about the Itch of Verſe and Praiſe, / Nor like a Puppy daggled thro' the Tovvn, / To fetch and carry Sing-ſong up and dovvn; […]1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 12, lines 218–221
   • There is a damp air of decay about them, and you get the impression that if you looked closely you would see the cobwebs hanging from their coat-elbows, or forming a fringe from their daggling dress.December 19 1863, Once a Week

   Synonyms:

   draggle

2. (transitive) To trail, so as to make wet or muddy.
   • The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray.1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co....
3. To dangle or wag.