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noun

Jag n. (Written also jagg)

A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation. "Arethuss arose... From rock and from jag." "Garments thus beset with long jags."

A part broken off; a fragment.

(Bot.) A cleft or division.

A leather bag or wallet; pl., Saddlebags. (Scot.)

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.)

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

Jag n. (Written also jagg) A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore. (Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.)

J.A.G, JAG n. (Mil.) Same as Judge-Advocate General. (Acronym)

verb

Jag v. t. (past & past part. jagged; pres. part. jagging) (Written also jagg) To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.

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

Jag v. t. To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc. (Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Jag'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jag" Quotes from Famous Books

... a man to guard agen that look? Fer other wimmin, when the'r blokes go crook, An' lobs 'ome wiv the wages uv a jag, They smashes things an' carries on a treat An' 'owls an' scolds an' wakes the bloomin' street Wiv noisy mag. But 'er—she never speaks; she never stirs... I drops me ...

— The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke • C. J. Dennis

... had big blue eyes, and delicately tinted rose-petal lips that seemed to be trying not to laugh at some private joke. She wasn't exactly blotto, but she had evidently laid a good foundation for a first-class jag. After all, it was only two thirty ...

— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... times, when I grow crouse, I gie their wames a random pouse, Is that enough for you to souse Your servant sae? Gae mind your seam, ye prick-the-louse, An' jag-the-flea! ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... for ingen utan for dig allena bekaenna, att jag formar ilia anda mit Ave Maria eller laesa mit Paternoster, utan du kommer mig ichagen. Ja i sjelfa messen kommer mig fore dit taeckleliga Ansigte och vart karliga omgange. Jag tycker jag kan icke skifta mig for n genann an Menniska, jungfru Maria, St. Birgitta och himmelens Haerskaror skalla ...

— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen

... not made her sure and nimble footed? Under her the foam leaped up, the spectral mist crept like an icy breath, the spray sprinkled all about her, swinging herself along from ledge to ledge, from jag to jag, like a spider on a viewless thread. Now she hung just above the fall, looking down and longing to leap, with nothing but a shining laurel-branch between her and the boiling pits below; now, at ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various

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