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  • noun Plural form of dag.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dag.

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Examples

  • While his pistols were no more than the customary horn-handled "dags" worn by most of the men, both broadsword and claymore were something special.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • In Australia and possibly New Zealand they're known as "dags", which led to the Australian expression "rattle your dags" for "hurry up".

    the mystery of the dead skunk 2008

  • A more disagreeable dish I have never tasted since the days when I used to do Willie Evans's "dags," by walking twice through a sewer, and was subsequently, on returning home, promptly put to bed, and made to eat brimstone and treacle.

    Diary of a Pilgrimage 1893

  • I should feel no desire, so I was assured, to do another angel's "dags" by sliding down the heavenly banisters.

    Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

  • So, like, maybe it might have been at home at the end of that movie Snatch, in which Brad Pitt talked about “liking dags.”

    Three awesome things I’ve discovered that that you should absolutely check out | Johnny B. Truant 2010

  • It was Rupert's decision that swayed the others; I could still see-with a feeling of grim satisfaction-the look on Dougal's face when his squat, black-bearded lieutenant eyed me speculatively, then patted the dags at his belt and said, "Aye, lass, why not?"

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • En timme senare är det lounge-dags och de såta vännerna samlas i soffan för att avnjuta ett spirituellt samtal.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Niklas Asker 2009

  • How is it that you find people that have the same diverse interests as you…I find tin type/ dags so polar opposite to Sock Monkeys, yet you find the one other person on the planet that also collects/makes them both.

    The Sock Monkey Tintype Woman « knitnut.net 2009

  • With which quip against the Anabaptists of his day, Fuller ends his story; and I leave him to set forth how Amyas, in fear of these same Scythians and heathens, rode out of Plymouth on a right good horse, in his full suit of armor, carrying lance and sword, and over and above two great dags, or horse-pistols; and behind him

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Bromine-sensitized and Mercury-developed daguerreotypes have relatively compared to Becquerel-processed dags fast exposure times; the sitting might be anywhere from 10-60 seconds depending on the lighting conditions.

    Antique photograph of the week: Smiling baby « knitnut.net 2007

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