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drug verb Past tense and past participle of drag. [OED dates this usage from 1500]

1861 (in 1974 Aiken Offield CW Letters 118) (Dec 16) I am informed that they drug you out as a molitia and I want you to let me kno how you like the opperations of a soldiers life. 1900 Harben N GA Sketches 265 He’s too good a citizen to be hauled an’ drug about like a dog with a rope round his neck. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 37 Sometimes no harrow was used at all, the plowed ground being “drug” with a big evergreen bough. 1937 Thornburgh Great Smoky Mts 93 A party of hunters came up from Knoxville and kilt ‘em a load o’bear an’ drug ‘em down to the head of the creek an’ skinned ‘em. 1953 Atwood Verbs East US 9-10 Drug ... occurs in W.Va., and in almost all parts of the S[outh] A[tlantic] S[tates] to and including N.C. 1979 Carpenter Walton War 162 My younguns git so dirty every day they look like they had been drug up the chimbley. 1998 Dante OHP-61 that incline line run about, around a big sprocket wheel and drug the coal down.