About The Word Jag
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Jag
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What's The Definition Of Jag?
[n] a bout of drinking or drug taking
[n] a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing [n] a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing [n] a sharp projection on an edge or surface; "he clutched a jag of the rock" [v] cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge Synonyms | Synonyms for Jag: dag Related Terms | Find terms related to Jag: bacchanal | bacchanalia | bacchanalian | bat | bear | bender | binge | blaze | booze | bout | buck | bum | bust | carousal | carouse | celebration | chop | cleft | cog | comb | compotation | convey | crag | crena | crenellate | crenulate | crimp | cut | debauch | depression | drinking bout | drunk | drunken carousal | fang | ferry | gash | guzzle | hack | harrow | hump | incise | incision | indent | indentation | jab | jog | joggle | kerf | knurl | lug | machicolate | mill | nick | nock | notch | orgy | pack | peak | pecten | picot | pink | potation | projection | pub-crawl | puncture | rake | ratchet | sawtooth | scallop | scarify | score | scotch | serrate | slash | snag | snaggle | soak | souse | spire | spree | sprocket | spur | stab | steeple | symposium | tear | toot | tooth | tote | transport | Vandyke | wassail See Also | cut | flap | garment | intemperance | intemperateness | projection | self-indulgence | serrate | slit Jag In Webster's Dictionary \Jag\, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. gag aperture,
cleft, chink; akin to Ir. & Gael. gag.] [Written also
{jagg}.]
1. A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance;
a denticulation.
Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag.
--Shelley.
Garments thus beset with long jags. --Holland.
2. A part broken off; a fragment. --Bp. Hacket.
3. (Bot.) A cleft or division.
{Jag bolt}, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which
resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.
\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}.] {Jagging iron}, a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures. \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. \Jag\, v. t. To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] \Jag\, n. 1. A leather bag or wallet; pl., saddlebags. [Scot.] 2. 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.] |
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