jagn.1
/dʒaɡ/, U.S. /dʒæɡ/ 1. † b. An attached pendant or fringe. Obsolete.
a. One of the dags or pendants made by cutting the edge of a garment, as was done for ornament in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a slash or cut made in the surface of a garment, to show a different colour underneath.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > border or edging > parts of
dag1399
tag1402
tatter1402
jag1530
cut1563
Vandyke1827
tab1834
tabc1880
14.. W. Staunton St. Patrick's Purgatory 1409 (MS. Reg. 17 B xliii. lf. 136 b) I saw summe there with colors of gold abowte here neckis,..summe with mo iagges on here clothis than hole cloth.
14.. W. Staunton St. Patrick's Purgatory 1409 (MS. Reg. 17 B xliii. lf. 141 Thilk serpentes, snakes, todes, and other wormes, ben here iaggis and daggis.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 255/2 Iagge, or dagge of a garment, fractillus.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 233/2 Iagge a cuttyng, chicqueture.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Iagge of a garmente, lacinia.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie I 5 A Iag, garse, or cut, incisûra, lacinia.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vii. i. 170 What should I saie of their [women's] doublets.. full of iags and cuts.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 11 To the end, that these inner garments, thus beset with long iagges and purfles, might shine againe with varietie of threads seene quite through.
1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times 960/1 To wear such rich garments, Imbroydered with Veluet, in a thousand iagges and cuts.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost II. xxiv. 203 Severus never wore any Garment of Velvet, which we now see daily tatter'd into Iags, even by the meaner sort.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > bordering or edging > fringe > specific
phylactery1576
jag1600
bulliona1661
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 143 Whereupon they sowe iags of partie-coloured silke, and upon every iag a little ball or button of silke, whereby the saide hanging may..be fastened unto a wall.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 19 He..who used to goe in his Senatours purple studded robe, trimmed with a iagge or frindge at the sleeve hand.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 186 As he was rising up, first the hem (margin Iag, welt or fringes) or edge of his Gowne stuck to the seate.
2. A shred of cloth; in plural. Rags, tatters. Also transferred and figurative. A scrap, fragment. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > ragged or tattered
ragsa1350
dud1508
jag1555
shred1615
rillin1900
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > rag > a rag
clout?c1225
rata1250
ragc1390
shrag?a1400
tatter-wagc1400
tatter1402
jag1555
libbet1627
tatter-wallop1808
tat1839
tag1840
trollopa1843
fent1844
raggle1888
lappie1892
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment
shreddingc950
brucheOE
shredc1000
brokec1160
truncheonc1330
scartha1340
screedc1350
bruisinga1382
morsel1381
shedc1400
stumpc1400
rag?a1425
brokalyc1440
brokeling1490
mammocka1529
brokelette1538
sheavec1558
shard1561
fragment1583
segment1586
brack1587
parcel1596
flaw1607
fraction1609
fracture1641
pash1651
frustillation1653
hoof1655
arrachement1656
jaga1658
shattering1658
discerption1685
scar1698
twitter1715
frust1765
smithereens1841
chitling1843
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. i. 113 Pluckyng from eche of their garmentes a litle iaggue.
1637 T. Heywood Royall King iii. sig. E3 Wee have store, of ragges; plenty, of tatters; aboundance, of jagges.
a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 415 To preserve a Shred, or jagg of an incertain ragged Estate.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 136 The Latter of the two Letters,..whereof..some Jaggs will suffice to be recited.
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda III. xxv. 43 I saw..black jags of paper littering the place.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Jags, tatters.
3. A protruding bristle, hair, or fibre; a hairy, bristly, or thread-like outgrowth or projection. Now said dialect of the beard of an ear of corn; in Scottish a prickle, as of a thorn or furze.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [noun] > hairiness > bristle
bristlea1300
jag1519
hispidity1660
macrochaeta1881
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn > awn of corn
aileOE
jag1519
spire1530
stang1808
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xviii. f. 167v Some dagswaynys haue longe thrummys and iagg [es] on bothe sydes: some but on one [cf. Cath. Januensis s.v. Fractillus, ‘fractillus dicitur etiam villus in tapeto vel aliâ a veste villosâ’].
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 15 The roote..beneth it hath many yealowe iagges or berdes lyke heres.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xviii. 556 It shall thus lye in the coutch till you see it begin to sprout and put forth little white jags or strings which is called the coming of the malt.
1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) iii. sig. F1 First, take away all those staring strawes, twigs, and other offensiue jagges that are fast in the Hiue, making the in-side as smooth as may be.
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse i. xxvi. 54 The round or worm-like Ligaments..parting into many jags as it were,..end near the clitoris.
1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 8 The despised oats were coming out in jag..in jag means the spray-like drooping awn of the oat.
4. A sharp projection or tooth on an edge or surface; one of the teeth, denticulations, or divisions of a leaf; a sharp or rugged point of rock, etc.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] > pointed projection
tongue1398
jag1578
mucro1646
spur1681
rostruma1728
spicula1753
spikelet1851
lingula1856
mucronation1862
cusp1879
mucronule1890
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > crag > [noun]
stonec825
knara1250
scar13..
craga1375
nipc1400
knag1552
knee1590
jag1831
man1897
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxii. 45 The thirde kinde [of Stork's Bill]..hath..small leaues, cut as it were in little iagges or peeces.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 104 Theyr other feete are broader, with many iagges and notches like a sawe.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Papilio [They] have one of the jaggs of the wing far extended beyond the rest of the verge.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 129 The cliffs touch the clouds with their jags.
1892 H. G. Hutchinson Fairway Island 98 Clutching an outstanding jag of the rock.
5. A jagged piece of metal fitted on the end of the ramrod of a rifle, and used, with some tow or rag fastened to it, to clean the barrel; now superseded by the ‘pull-through’.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > instrument for cleaning bore > pull- or push-through
scourer1467
jag1844
pull-through1890
push-through1920
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 96 (note) One Ball-drawer, One Brass Jagg, to each Rifle.
1879 Martini-Henry Rifle Exerc. 61 Screw the jag on to the cleaning rod, wrap a damp rag round the jag, so as to cover it.
1880 Daily Tel. 6 May 5/8 A private..shot himself..with a blank cartridge and the jag of his ramrod.
1890 Rep. Mag. Rifle §19 in Times 6 Dec. 15/4 The jag in the Martini-Henry rifle is an extra part, and has to be screwed on to the rod.
6. ‘A barb or dovetail which resists retraction.’[Cf. jog n.2 ]
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1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.
7. Scottish. A prick with anything sharp.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > with sharp-pointed instrument > pricking > a prick
prick1600
jag1818
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 225 Affliction may gi'e him a jagg, and let the wind out o' him.
1900 N.E.D. at Jag Mod. Sc. A tailor gave an elephant a jag with his needle. His bare legs were a' jags wi' rinnin' through the whuns.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
jag-armed adj. armed with jags or prickles.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > pointed projection > prickle
prickling1567
prickled1578
echinated1657
echinate1668
jag-armed1827
echinulate1846
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 73 Jag-arm'd nettles soon, I trow, The passers-by shall sting.
jag-bolt n. see quot.
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1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §42 (note) Jag or bearded bolts or spikes, are such as with a chissel have a beard raised upon their angles.
jag-bolt v. to fasten with a jag-bolt.
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1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §48 The uprights were also jag-bolted and trenailed to one another.
jag-spear n. a barbed spear.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > barbed spear
crooka1500
partisan1542
pheona1618
harpoon1625
angon1683
jag-spear1864
1864 in McLennan Prim. Marriage (1865) 304 Their long jag-spears.
jag-tail n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > used as bait
flag-worm1653
marsh worm1653
jag-tail1736
slob1814
sedge-worm1839
blackhead1842
bluehead1842
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > worms and grubs
angletwitcheOE
wormc1320
codwormc1450
redwormc1450
gentle1577
touchangle1581
bob1589
Jack1601
dug1608
codbait1620
caddis-worm1627
caddis1653
cockspur1653
lob-worm1653
marsh worm1653
gilt tail1656
cadew1668
cad1674
ash-grub1676
clap-bait1681
whitebait1681
earth-bob1696
jag-tail1736
buzz1760
treachet1787
angleworm1788
cow-turd-bob1798
palmer bob1814
slob1814
angledog1832
caddis-bait1833
sedge-worm1839
snake feeder1861
hellgrammite1866
easworm1872
cow-dung bob1880
snake doctora1883
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. ii. 272 Your Bait, which should be a red Worm, or a Worm called the Jag-tail, which is of a pale flesh-colour, with a yellow Jag on his Tail.
Draft additions December 2022
Chiefly Scottish. A hypodermic injection, esp. a vaccination. Cf. jab n. 1b.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > [noun] > injection or syringing > injection by hypodermic needle
hypodermatic1855
hypodermic injection1863
hypodermic1875
shot1889
piqûre1904
jab1914
hypo1925
hype1972
1949 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 8 Sept. 1/2 Peron orders jag for all... The action came in the face of a growing smallpox outbreak.
1982 A. MacVicar Bees in my Bonnet ii. 43 If she takes flu, in spite of an annual ‘flu jag’,..a home help attends her domestic needs.
2021 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Feb. 14 It was a massive relief that my own parents had their jags in the past week or so.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2022).
jagn.2
/dʒaɡ/, U.S. /dʒæɡ/ dialect and U.S.
1.
a. A load (usually a small cart-load) of hay, wood, etc.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > by cart > load carried by cart
fotherOE
cart-load?c1225
jag1597
court-load1703
1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. i. 747 You shall have my carte to carrie home a iagg of haye when you wonn.
1636 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 40 The quantity of two loade or jaggs of hey at the Iland Creeke.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 73/1 A Jagg of Hay is a small Load of Hay.
1700 in J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23 (1784) 163 Carried the widow Smith one jagg of thorns.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Jag, an indefinite quantity, but less than a load, of hay or corn in the straw.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Jag, a large cart load of hay. In Cheshire, however,..jag or jagg means a parcel, a small load of hay or corn.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) x. 249 Their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of drift-wood.
1893 Essex Rev. 2 125.
b. A load for the back; a pedlar's wallet.According to Jamieson, A leather bag or wallet; a pocket; a saddle-bag.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > saddle-bags
sumpter1548
alforja1608
sumptery1620
saddlebag1675
jag1787
saddle pocket1857
kyack1901
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Jag, a parcel or load of any thing, whether on a man's back, or in a carriage. Norf.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. ii. 33 There's nae room for bags or jaugs here.
c. As much liquor as a man can carry; a ‘load’ of drink. Also, a drinking bout; the state or a period of being drunk. dialect and colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking capacity
lading1526
load1594
jag1678
heada1686
hardhead1794
bibosity1823
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drunkenness
drunkennessc893
drunkenc950
drunknessc1160
drunkenheada1300
drunkhead1340
drunkelewnessa1387
winedrunkennessa1387
drunkship1393
drunkelewc1430
vinolence1430
yverescec1430
drunkenshipc1440
drunkelecc1450
barley-hooda1529
ebriety1582
alecy1594
distemper1600
insobriety1611
disguisea1616
perpotation1623
temulency1623
vinolency1623
intoxication1624
pot-shot1630
ebriosity1646
inebriation1646
Bacchation1656
fluster1710
temulentness1727
fuddle1764
inebriety1801
temulence1803
Lushington1823
fluffiness1860
booziness1863
jag1891
brannigan1892
befuddlement1905
mokus1924
muzzy-headedness1930
pixilation1936
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
cups1406
drinking?1518
banquet1535
Bacchanal1536
pot-revel1577
compotation1593
rouse1604
Bacchanalia1633
potmealc1639
bout1670
drinking-bout1673
carouse1690
carousal1765
drunk1779
bouse1786
toot1790
set-to1808
spree1811
fuddlea1813
screed1815
bust1834
lush1841
bender1846
bat1848
buster1848
burst1849
soak1851
binge1854
bumming1860
bust-out1861
bum1863
booze1864
drink1865
ran-tan1866
cupping1868
crawl1877
hellbender1877
break-away1885
periodical1886
jag1894
booze-up1897
slopping-up1899
souse1903
pub crawl1915
blind1917
beer-up1919
periodic1920
scoot1924
brannigan1927
rumba1934
boozeroo1943
sesh1943
session1943
piss-up1950
pink-eye1958
binge drinking1964
1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 87 Proverbiall Periphrases of one drunk... He has a jagg or load.
1872 J. Glyde Norfolk Garland i. 149 He has got his jag, i.e., as much drink as he can fairly carry.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Sept. 6/3 A ‘saccharine jag’ appears to be the latest thing in the way of Yankee intoxication.
1892 Voice (N.Y.) 4 Aug. Others with the most picturesque ‘jags’ on, hardly able to keep their feet.
1894 Midwinter Appeal (San Francisco) 17 Feb. 4/5 As for jags, he held that he can gin up when he likes.
1895 N.Y. Dramatic News 26 Oct. 7/2 An ability to acquire a ‘jag’ in a wonderfully short space of time and with a single drink.
1904 ‘G. Wurdz’ Foolish Dict. Brain,..usually occupied by the Intellect Bros.,—Thoughts and Ideas—as an Intelligence Office, but sometimes sub-let to Jag, Hang-Over & Co.
1905 Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 4/7 Many young fellows brought their girls, and one did even worse than that by fetching a complete jag to the festival.
1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond iv. § 1 A friend who is sleeping off the effects of what low people call a jag.
1921 E. Wallace Law Four Just Men iv. 112 He had been on a jag the night before and had finished up in what he called an opium house.
1924 J. Masefield Sard Harker iii. 251 Sir James has sacked his old man for crooking his little finger: going on the jag, in other words.
1928 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 11/3 Twelve additional deaths to-day are attributed to week-end ‘jags’, which have been traced to ‘speak-easies’.
1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves xix. 250 I took the whole thing as a great compliment, proud to feel that any drink from my cellars could have produced such a majestic jag.
1966 Listener 28 Apr. 619/1 Sid Chaplin's Saturday Saga, the account of two miners on a memorable jag.
d. transferred and figurative. A period of indulgence in a particular pastime, emotion, interest, etc.; = fit n.2 4a; frequently with defining word prefixed, as crying jag; spec. (see quot. 1946). colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > spell of some action
whilec1175
stint1533
crash1549
fleech1589
spell1707
return1763
run1864
fling period1885
go-round1911
jag1913
brannigan1928
1913 J. London Valley of Moon (1914) i. xv. 119 ‘Aw, it's only one of his cryin' jags,’ Mary said.
1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xix. 213 One had a ‘crying jag’.
1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xxii. 254 A girl got a ‘laughing jag’ and shrieked with idiotic laughter.
1933 S. Howard Alien Corn iii. 97 Isn't seventy-one fifty cheap for the jag I've got tonight?
1945 S. Lewis Cass Timberlane (1946) xlix. 347 Now you're beginning to get over your love-jag, maybe you can see that Jinny is as..tricky and grabbing as a monkey.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 375 Jag, a state of extreme stimulation, produced by marihuana or some other stimulant.
1958 Spectator 4 July 15/2 The British public are on an enormous clean-clothes jag.
1972 New Yorker 26 Aug. 38/3 A neurotic habit..may be overt, like a temper tantrum or a crying jag.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 June 631/3 The Kennedy years..launched the Americans on a jag of hope and fear.
2. A train of trucks in a coal-mine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > vehicle for underground haulage or transportation > set of
train1825
set1863
run1876
journey1883
jag1900
spake1935
1900 Daily News 9 Feb. 3/1 I crept rapidly alongside the moving ‘jag’.
1900 Daily News 14 Feb. 3/1 The work of the driver is to hook the pony to the ‘jags’ or trains of loaded little trucks, marshalled by the putters.
3. A portion or quantity; a ‘lot’. U.S.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a quantity or amount
fother13..
minda1325
quantitya1325
bodya1500
qt.1640
volume1702
some deal1710
lot1789
chance1805
mess1809
grist1832
jag1834
mense1841
1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major xxiv. 168 As there was very little rale mony in the country, the Bank went and bo't a good jag on't in Europe.
1888 Missouri Republican in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) One broker..caught a jag of 2,000 or 3,000 shares.
1890 Boston Jrnl. 10 May 2/2 Farmer (to new hand)—‘Hans, you may give the roan critter a jag of feed’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Jagn.3
/dʒaɡ/, U.S. /dʒæɡ/ colloquial.
A Jaguar motor car. See also gin and Jag n. at gin n.3 Phrases 3.
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1959 J. Drummond Black Unicorn xxi. 146 ‘He will meet us opposite the clock-tower in Point Road. I gave him a little word-picture of the Jag.’ The Jaguar was a long cream drop-head.
1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Oct. 805/4 Stephen, the boss's son, with his Jag, to Wilf, the miner's son, with his typewriter.
1968 J. Fleming Kill or Cure vii. 88 People with lots of money, living in the Jag belt.
1974 T. Allbeury Snowball x. 55 They've bought a car. A Jag—second-hand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jagv.1
/dʒaɡ/, U.S. /dʒæɡ/ a. transitive. To pierce with a sharp instrument, to stab. Obsolete except as in 1b.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed
shearOE
sting993
stickOE
spita1225
wound?c1225
stitchc1230
pitcha1275
threstc1275
forprick1297
steekc1300
piercec1325
rivec1330
dag?a1400
jag?a1400
lancec1400
pickc1400
tamec1400
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punch1440
launch1460
thringc1485
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ding1529
stob?1530
probe1542
enthrill1563
inthirlc1580
cloy1590
burt1597
pink1597
lancinate1603
perterebrate1623
puncture1675
spike1687
skiver1832
bepierce1840
gimlet1841
prong1848
javelin1859
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2087 Sir Loth..Enjoynede with a geaunt, and jaggede hym thorowe.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2891, 2893 Thorowe a jerownde schelde he jogges hym thorowe,..Ioyntes and gemows, he jogges in sondyre.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 150 Sum iaggit vthiris to the heft, With knyvis that scherp cowd scheir.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 363 First, turne vp his vpper lip, and iagge it lightly with a launcet, so as it may bleede.
1622 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster (new ed.) v. 71 Iagge him Gentlemen.
1809 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 2 37 He saw them jag the cocoa-shell for the purpose.
b. Scottish, English regional (northern), and U.S. regional. To prick with something sharp, as with a spur or thorn.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > prick
prickOE
pointa1425
joba1500
birlc1540
punct1548
nib1558
pounce1570
punge1570
stab1570
reprick1611
jaga1700
barb1803
jab1825
rowel1891
pinprick1909
a1700 in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1706) i. 39 (Jam.) He bade her ride, And with a spur did jag her side.
1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 640* May ne'er a thorn hae power to jag the hide upon his shins.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour ix. l. 286 He now whipped and jagged the old nag, as if intent on catching the hounds.
1883 C. F. Smith Southernisms in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 50 Jag, ‘to prick or pierce with a thorn or any sharp-pointed thing’. Common in various parts of the South.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Jag, to prick. to peck.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > become or make perforated [verb (intransitive)] > make (a) hole(s) > with something sharp
jag?a1400
pink1530
probe1835–6
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2909 Gyawntis forjustede with gentille knyghtes Thorowe gesserawntes of Iene jaggede to the herte.
1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados viii. Prol. 99 Sum Jarris with ane ged staff, to iag throw blak Jakkis.
2. transitive. To slash or pink (a garment, etc.) by way of ornament.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > slash or pounce
slitter?a1366
jag?a1400
slattera1400
pouncec1410
race?a1439
slash1698
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > by way of ornament
jag?a1400
?a1400 Morte Arth. 905 A jupone of Ierodyne jaggede in schredez.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 589/1 I jagge or cutte a garment, je chicquette.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. x. sig. P.viij/1 To what end doe wee iagge and gashe the garmentes?
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lii. 211 His Journey-men..did jagg it and pink it at the bottom.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 73 Like a black block of marble, jagged with white.
3. To make indentations in the edge or surface of; to make ragged or uneven by cutting or tearing; to make rugged or bristling. to jag in, to indent with cuts.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > make uneven [verb (transitive)]
unevenc1440
jag1568
unlevela1586
rugged1628
cockle1686
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > notch
nick?1440
jag1568
natch1570
notch1581
notch1834
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > indent the edge of [verb (transitive)]
indentc1430
to jag in1568
lip1821
the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > project sharply from [verb (transitive)] > furnish with (a) sharp projection(s)
tooth1483
tang1566
spike1716
jag1748
teethe1775
prong1874
the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > project sharply from [verb (transitive)] > furnish with (a) sharp projection(s) > cover with sharp projections
engrail1576
jag1748
bristle1837
1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 5 Angelica hath leves somethinge lyke lovage, but not so far iagged in.
1615 J. Loiseau de Tourval tr. H. de Feynes Exact Surv. E. Indies 22 When they take any prisoner, who by chance hath his garments cut or iag'd, they say hee did teare them of purpose.
1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 35 Jagged and torn by the impetuous assaults..of Waves.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. 699 The ground..Was jagg'd with frost or heap'd with glazed snow.
1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iii. 100 Three long rollers..With iron cas'd, and jagg'd with many a cogg.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 5/2 A doctor was called, who said the man had jagged the windpipe.
4. transitive. To dovetail or join by ‘letting in’. U.S.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > join > with specific joint or method
mortisea1450
culver-tail1616
scarf1627
tenon1652
dovetail1657
cock1663
shoot?1677
knee1711
indent1741
mitre1753
halve1804
box1815
tongue1823
sypher1841
cog1858
butt joint1859
jag1894
lap-join1968
1894 Outing 24 23/1 The ribs..run around full length, except at the trunk where they will be jagged into the piece holding the trunk to the keel.
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5. Nautical. To lay in long bights, as a rope, and tie with stops. U.S.
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jagv.2
/dʒaɡ/, U.S. /dʒæɡ/ dialect.
transitive. To carry in a cart, or on a pack-horse.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey on packsaddle or pack-horse
jag1747
packsaddle1912
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] > by wagon or cart
wagon1755
jag1847–78
1747 [implied in: W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. K3 Jaggers, this includes both the Men and Horses, that are imploy'd to carry the Ore on the Horses Backs, from the Mine to the Place where it is Smelted, yet we say seperately Jagger-Lads, and Jagging-Horses. (at jagger n.2 2)].
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Jag, to carry hay, &c. West.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Jag, to carry hay, &c. in a cart.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Jag, to cart.
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