jagg

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Jag \Jag\ (j[a^]g), n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. gag aperture, cleft, chink; akin to Ir. & Gael. gag.] [Written also jagg.] [1913 Webster]

1.A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation. [1913 Webster]

Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag.— Shelley.[1913 Webster]
Garments thus beset with long jags.— Holland.[1913 Webster]

2.A part broken off; a fragment. --Bp. Hacket. [1913 Webster]

3.(Bot.) A cleft or division. [1913 Webster]

4.A leather bag or wallet; pl., saddlebags. [Scot.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

5.Enough liquor to make a man noticeably drunk; a small "load;" a time or case of drunkeness; -- esp. in phr. To have a jag on, to be drunk. [Slang, U. S. & Dial. Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Jag bolt, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone. [1913 Webster]


jagg \jagg\, v. t. & n. See Jag. [1913 Webster]

Jag \Jag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Jagging.] To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch. [Written also jagg.] [1913 Webster]

Jagging iron, a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures. [1913 Webster]


Jag \Jag\, n. [Scot. jag, jaug, a leather bag or wallet, a pocket. Cf. Jag a notch.] A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] [Written also jagg.] --Forby. [1913 Webster]
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