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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jag \Jag\, noun [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. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] [Written also {jagg}.] --Forby.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jag \Jag\, verb (used with an object) To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
JAG \JAG\, JAG \J.A.G\, noun (Mil.) Same as {Judge-Advocate General}. [Acronym] [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jag \Jag\ (j[a^]g), noun [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. gag aperture, cleft, chink; akin to Ir. & Gael. gag.] [Written also {jagg}.]
1. A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag. --Shelley.
Garments thus beset with long jags. --Holland.
2. A part broken off; a fragment. --Bp. Hacket.
3. (Bot.) A cleft or division.
4. A leather bag or wallet; pl., saddlebags. [Scot.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. 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. [Slang, U. S. & Dial. Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Jag bolt}, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jag \Jag\, verb (used with an object) [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}.]
{Jagging iron}, a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
jag
noun
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
verb: cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge [also: {jagging}, {jagged}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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