† knaggedadj.
Obsolete.
Furnished with protuberances, knobs, or knots; knobbed, toothed, jagged.
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c1430 Virg. 2nd Compl. 97 in Pol., Rel. & L. Poems 211 Thou scourge maad of ful touȝ skyn, Knottid & gnaggid.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4973 A tre, þat was tried, all of tru gold,..And frut on yt fourmyt fairest of shap, Of mony kynd þat was knyt [1874 kuyt], knagged aboue.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxxvii In some she hath made them [horns] knagged and branched, as in Deere.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature v. 32 A knagg'd staffe.
1712 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 394 Narrow, knagged Alatern.
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