jag

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sharp projection; a barb.
2. n. A hanging flap along the edge of a garment.
3. n. A slash or slit in a garment exposing material of a different color.
4. v. To cut jags in; notch.
5. v. To cut unevenly.
6. v. Scots To jab sharply; prick.
7. n. Slang A bout of drinking or drug use.
8. n. Slang A period of overindulgence in an activity; a spree: a shopping jag; a crying jag. See Synonyms at binge.
9. n. A small load or portion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To notch; cut or slash in notches, teeth, or ragged points.
2. To prick, jab, or lacerate, as with a knife or dirk.
3. Nautical, to lay or fold in long bights, as a rope or tackle, and tie up with stops.
4. n. A sharp notch or tooth, as of a saw; a ragged or tattered point; a zig-zag.
5. n. One of a series of points or dags cut in the edge of a garment for ornament: a style much in favor in France and England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. See dag.
6. n. A stab or jab, as with a sharp instrument.
7. n. In botany, a cleft or division.—5. A barbed joining or dovetail; a jag-bolt.
8. To carry, as a load: as, to jag hay.
9. n. A one-horse load; a wagon-load.
10. n. A saddle-bag; a wallet.
11. n. As much liquor as one can carry: as, to have a jag on hence, a drunken condition.
12. n. A fare or catch of fish.
13. n. A lot, parcel, load, or quantity: as, a, jag of oysters.
14. n. A rustic; a farm-hand: as, a plow jag.

Wiktionary

1. n. A sharp projection.
2. n. Scotland A medical injection.
3. v. To cut unevenly.
4. v. To tease.
5. n. A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
6. n. a one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
2. n. A part broken off; a fragment.
3. n. (Bot.) A cleft or division.
4. n. Scot., Scot., Scot. A leather bag or wallet saddlebags.
5. n. Slang, U. S. & Dial. Eng. 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.
6. v. To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
7. n. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore.
8. v. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. To carry, as a load
9. n. (Mil.), Acronym Same as Judge-Advocate General.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a sharp projection on an edge or surface
2. n. a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
3. n. a bout of drinking or drug taking
4. v. cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge
5. n. a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing