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noun
Jag  n.  (Written also jagg)  
1.
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."
2.
A part broken off; a fragment.
3.
(Bot.) A cleft or division.
4.
A leather bag or wallet; pl., Saddlebags. (Scot.)
5.
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



... your heart in your ardent cry, giving it over and over, he calls it the same old saw that your jag-toothed red ...
— Chantecler - Play in Four Acts • Edmond Rostand
... is a fellow with a head like a balloon, not in size, but in contents, yes. Have you ever had a real jag on you, not the big dinner, big bottle, big cigar sort of imitation, but the ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy
... I see where it is; and I can see it is a capital place; just in that little jag, with famous bathing. I wonder if they will stay long enough for me to ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... two Latin words, ad, and sinistrum, meaning "to the bad." If in doubt, try one. (Old adage, "Absinthe makes the jag last longer)." ...
— The Foolish Dictionary • Gideon Wurdz
... road, with the last jag of rails still on it. Jedwort piled on his stakes, and threw on the crowbar and axe, while we ...
— The Man Who Stole A Meeting-House - 1878, From "Coupon Bonds" • J. T. Trowbridge


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