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

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Examples

  • "Aw, it's only one of his cryin 'jags," Mary said, with a harshness that her free hand belied as it caressed his hair with soothing strokes.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,

    Albloggerque johnny_mango 2005

  • "Aw, it's only one of his cryin 'jags," Mary said, with a harshness that her free hand belied as it caressed his hair with soothing strokes.

    Chapter 15 1913

  • There were square patches, with the patterns matched so exquisitely that you had to feel the edge before you could realize that the patch was there; three-cornered "jags" darned so perfectly with their own threads that they were invisible, and every kind of rent and tear and hole was treated in its own particular way.

    The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 23, April 15, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

  • They were beguiling the time in innocent "jags" pending the arrival of the boat in the river that was to take them out of the Klondyke.

    Colorado Jim George Goodchild

  • With four horses on the wagon, Percy had worked nearly all day bringing in two "jags" of poor hay from the stack in the field.

    The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, 1892

  • They were clad in "rags and jags," and the face of the eldest was in "jags" also.

    The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867

  • A few piles of drift-wood, which some wreckers had painfully brought up the bank and stacked up there to dry, being the only objects in the desert, looked indefinitely large and distant, even like wigwams, though, when we stood near them, they proved to be insignificant little "jags" of wood.

    Cape Cod 1865

  • I effuse my flash in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

    Steve Heilig: The Greatest Poetry Reading Ever? Steve Heilig 2011

  • I effuse my flash in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

    Steve Heilig: The Greatest Poetry Reading Ever? Steve Heilig 2011

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