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Jag

noun
(Written also jagg)
1.
A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
2.
A slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing.
3.
A flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing.  Synonym: dag.
4.
A bout of drinking or drug taking.



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"Jag" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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
... but I don't like to endure the end of the jag next morning," laughed Nell, as she began to put ribbons into the bodkins for Letitia. I saw Harriet give her a long look from under her half-lowered eyelashes as she hugged the Suckling closer to her breast. Billy had told Harriet and me casually a few nights ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess
... "Well, I guess the nearest would be about Three Hundred and Fifty-second Street and then he'd have a load and a jag. No, sir, it's the faithful cab for yours. There's a row of cabs just on the edge of the square. I could go over and get you ...
— New Faces • Myra Kelly


Words linked to "Jag" :   intemperateness, self-indulgence, jaggy, intemperance, projection, cut, slit, flap, serrate, garment


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