Jag, n. 1. A
leather bag or wallet; pl., saddlebags.
[Scot.]
2. 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.]
Jag (?), n. [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.
Jag bolt, a bolt with a nicked or barbed
shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.
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.]
Jagging iron, a wheel with a zigzag or
jagged edge for cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental
figures.
Jag, n. [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.
Jag, v. t. To carry, as a load;
as, to jag hay, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]