Definition of Jagging

1. Verb. (present participle of jag) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jagging

1. jag [v] - See also: jag

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jagging

jaggedness
jaggednesses
jaggedy
jagger
jaggerbush
jaggeries
jaggers
jaggery
jaggery palm
jaggheries
jagghery
jaggier
jaggies
jaggiest
jaggily
jagging (current term)
jaggs
jaggy
jaghir
jaghirdar
jaghirdars
jaghire
jaghires
jaghirs
jagir
jagirs
jagless
jagoff
jagoffs
jagoite

Literary usage of Jagging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1901)
"The American settlers used the jagging or pack horse on narrow forest trails throughout the colonial period. When wheels in summer and sleds in winter took ..."

2. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1900)
"The American settlers used the jagging or pack horse on narrow forest trails throughout the colonial period. When wheels in summer and sleds in winter took ..."

3. Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1839)
"When the buddle became full they divided the contents into three parts, that nest the jagging-board being termed the head or crop, which was saved by itself ..."

4. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon (1874)
"Fixed across the upper end, and above the edges of the buddle, is a board, about 15 in. wide, called the jagging board, or huddle-head, rather more inclined ..."

5. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1828)
"The operator (usually a woman, or stout boy or girl) spreads on the jagging board from two to three quarts of the trunked slime, on which runs a stream of ..."

6. Lockwood's Dictionary of Terms Used in the Practice of Mechanical by Joseph Gregory Horner (1892)
"A tail bolt whose shank or tail is roughed up by jagging. Jaggers. ... jagging.—When a wrought-irou bar, a shaft, or an eye, is cast into a piece of work, ..."

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