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dragea

1 dragea [ME, AN dragge] , drag, grappling hook. 1286 in ij bussellis carbonis maris emptis ad faciend’ quarell’ et j ~eam ad puteum KR Ac 462/11; 1311 in stipendium j hominis cum affro suo et ~ea tractantis iiij bargeatas petrarum Fabr. Exon. 54 (cf. ib. 57: draggeam).
2 †dragea , (?) kind of herb. Cf. 2 dragetum. Bacon IX 122 (v. 2 dracontia).

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