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drague

/dʁaɡ/

noun, feminine/dʁaɡ/plural: dragues

a dredge (a dredging machine); a dragnet

From Middle English dragge, from Old Norse draga (“that which is dragged, dragged load”), from Proto-Germanic *dragǭ (“sledge, sled”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to haul, pull”). Cognate with English dray.

noun, feminine/dʁaɡ/plural: dragues

pickup, seduction

Deverbal from draguer, ultimately from Etymology 1 above.