What does drag mean in the context of a bull being chained to a drag? [closed]
My question comes after reading the William Carlos Williams' poem The Bull:
"...chained / to a drag / the bull is godlike"
I would be very grateful for an explanation. Thank you!
According to the OED, "drag" can be short for "drag-harrow":
A heavy kind of harrow used for breaking up ground or breaking clods; a drag-harrow.
(This sense is marked as "historical" in some other dictionaries.)
One site sells drag harrows and they look like this:
a drag OED
- Something that drags, or hangs heavily, so as to impede motion.
As in:
the bull is impeded for safety, but allowed to graze.
