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▪ I. jagging, vbl. n.1|ˈdʒægɪŋ|
[f. jag v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of jag v.1 in its different senses; indenting, piercing; also concr. a jagged edge, an indented border, a fringe, etc.
1502Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830) 14 Six tapettes for the sompter horses with the lynyng grayling jagging. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 146 Not your pinches, your purles, your floury iaggings, superfluous enterlacings, and puffings vp. 1626Bacon Sylva §590, I account the Iagging of Pinkes, and Gilly Flowers, to be like the Inequality of Oake-Leaues, of Vine-Leaues, or the like. 1776Da Costa Elem. Conchol. 13 The jaggings or toothings of the contour. 1815Polehampton Gallery Nat. & Art (1821) V. 186 The gum..is obtained by wounding the bark in different parts of the body of the tree, or by what has been called jagging.
b. Comb. jagging-board Metall., an inclined board on which ore-slimes are washed, as in a buddle; jagging-iron, an instrument used for ornamenting pastry, etc., now made in the form of a wheel with teeth, set in a handle.
1598Florio, Speronélle, a brasen toole with a spoone at one end, and a rowell or little spur at the other, that cookes vse to cut out or marke their paste meates, called a iagging iron. 1718M. Eales Receipts 84 When you use it, cut it with a Jagging-Iron in long Slips.
▪ II. jagging, vbl. n.2
see jag v.2 |