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