jag

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

jag, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. gag aperture, cleft, chink; akin to Ir. & Gael. gag.].

•  A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.  [1913 Webster]

  "Arethuss arose . . .
  From rock and from jag."  [1913 Webster]

  "Garments thus beset with long jags."  [1913 Webster]
•  A part broken off; a fragment.  Bp. Hacket.  [1913 Webster]
•  A cleft or division.  [1913 Webster]
•  A leather bag or wallet;  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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

jag, v. t. 

 To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.  [1913 Webster]

Jagging iron, a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures.

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.  Forby.  [1913 Webster]

jag, v. t. 

 To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc.

jag, n. 

 Same as Judge-Advocate General.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

jag, n. & v.
--n. a sharp projection of rock etc.
--v.tr. (jagged, jagging)
1 cut or tear unevenly.
2 make indentations in.

Derivative

jagger n.

jag, n. sl.
1 a drinking bout; a spree.
2 a period of indulgence in an activity, emotion, etc.

Etymology

orig. 16th c., = load for one horse: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

jag

Vandyke, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bear, bender, binge, blaze, booze, bout, buck, bum, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, chop, cleft, cog, comb, compotation, convey, crag, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut, debauch, depression, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, fang, ferry, gash, guzzle, hack, harrow, hump, incise, incision, indent, indentation, jab, jog, joggle, kerf, knurl, lug, machicolate, mill, nick, nock, notch, orgy, pack, peak, pecten, picot, pink, potation, projection, pub-crawl, puncture, rake, ratchet, sawtooth, scallop, scarify, score, scotch, serrate, slash, snag, snaggle, soak, souse, spire, spree, sprocket, spur, stab, steeple, symposium, tear, toot, tooth, tote, transport, wassail

ROGET THESAURUS

jag

Contents

N contents, cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag, cartload, shipload, cup of, basket of, of, inside, stuffing, ullage.

Notch

N notch, dent, nick, cut, indent, indentation, dimple, embrasure, battlement, machicolation, saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, scollop, vandyke, depression, jag, notched, crenate, crenated, dentate, dentated, denticulate, denticulated, toothed, palmated, serrated.

VB notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scallop, scollop, crenulate, vandyke.