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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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"Jag" Quotes from Famous Books

... than our language was to them. Several English words they pronounced perfectly; whilst of such where an f or an s entered they could make but little: Finger, was pronounced bing-gah, ship, yip; and of King George they make Ken Jag-ger. In the difficulty of pronouncing the f and s they resemble the Port Jackson natives; and the word used by them in calling to a distance, cau-wah! (come here) is nearly similar to cow-ee! The word also to express eye is nearly the same. But in the following ...

— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders

... of the brothers were hilarious; a few had drunk too much and were sick; one had a "crying jag." There were men there, however, who were not drinking at all, and they were making gallant efforts to keep the sober girls away from the less sober girls and the ...

— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks

... rock. The foemen having gone, he safely descended by the cord and reached his home. This help had come from a friendly spider who saw his plight from her perch at the top of the spire, and, weaving a web of extra thickness, she made one end fast to a jag of rock while the other fell within his grasp—for she, like all other of the brute tribe, liked the gentle cave-dwellers better than the remorseless hunters. Hence the name ...

— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

... with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, When the morning star shines dead, As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit In the light of its golden wings. And when sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath, Its ardours of rest and of love, And the crimson pall of eve ...

— The Hundred Best English Poems • Various

... ten acres ain't enough now in Noo Jersey), how he'd willed me a quarter of a million dollars, because I was the only one of our kin that called him down when he used to come home with a hard-cider jag on him and heave ox-bows at his nieces. I told him how I'd turned in every red cent on the Zigler, and I told him the whole circus of my coming out with her, and so on, and so following; and every forty seconds he'd wipe his moustache and blat, ...

— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

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