Jag \Jag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jagged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Jagging.]
To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
[Written also jagg.]
[1913 Webster]
Jagging iron, a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for
cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jagged \jag"ged\ (j[a^]g"g[e^]d), a.
Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or
teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged
vine leaves' shade." --Trench. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jagged
See jag
WordNet (r) 2.0
jag
n 1: a sharp projection on an edge or surface; "he clutched a jag
of the rock"
2: a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different
color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
3: a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval
clothing [syn: dag]
4: a bout of drinking or drug taking
v : cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge
[also: jagging, jagged]
WordNet (r) 2.0
jagged
adj 1: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged
outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jaggy,
scraggy]
2: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though
gnawed [syn: erose, jaggy, notched, toothed]
WordNet (r) 2.0
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "jagged":
V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, asperous, battlemented, bent,
boozy, broken, broken off, canned, capricious, changeable,
changing, chipped, chopped, chopped-off, choppy, cornered,
corrugated, cragged, craggy, crenate, crenated, crenellated,
crenulate, crinkled, crooked, crotched, crumpled, decousu, dentate,
dentated, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected,
discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disguised, disjunctive,
disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, drunk,
embrasured, episodic, erose, erratic, fitful, forked, furcal,
furcate, gashed, geniculate, geniculated, gravelly, harsh,
herky-jerky, hooked, impulsive, incised, incoherent, inconsistent,
inconstant, indented, inebriated, intermittent, interrupted,
ironbound, irregular, jaggy, jerky, knee-shaped, lacerate,
lacerated, mercurial, motley, muddled, mutable, nicked,
nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial,
nonstandard, nonuniform, notched, parenthetic, patchy, pixilated,
plastered, pluralistic, pointed, ragged, rockbound, rocky, rough,
rugged, rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawlike, sawtooth, scabrous,
scalloped, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scrappy, serrate,
serrated, serrulated, sharp, sharp-cornered, snagged, snaggled,
snaggy, snatchy, spasmodic, spiked, sporadic, spotty, stony,
suspended, toothed, unconnected, unequable, unequal, uneven,
unjoined, unlevel, unorthodox, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady,
unsuccessive, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated,
variform, various, varying, wavering, wrinkled, zigzag
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dag, erose, jagging, jaggy, notched, scraggy, toothed
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