jag

A sharp projection.

garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles

The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.

A part broken off; a fragment.

some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited

I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

A flap, a tear in a clothing

A cleft or division.

A medical injection, a jab.

To cut unevenly.

to pierce with a sharp object

To tease.

Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.

A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.

Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.

‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’

A fit, spell, outburst.

Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).

Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]

A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.

A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.