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Jag

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] [Written also jagg.] Forby.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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