Jagged

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jag \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}.]
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Jagging iron}, a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for
        cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  jagged \jag"ged\ (j[a^]g"g[e^]d), a.
     Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or
     teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged
     vine leaves' shade." --Trench. -- {Jag"ged*ly}, adv. --
     {Jag"ged*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jagged
       See {jag}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jag
       n 1: a sharp projection on an edge or surface; "he clutched a jag
            of the rock"
       2: a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different
          color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
       3: a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval
          clothing [syn: {dag}]
       4: a bout of drinking or drug taking
       v : cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge
       [also: {jagging}, {jagged}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jagged
       adj 1: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged
              outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: {jaggy},
               {scraggy}]
       2: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though
          gnawed [syn: {erose}, {jaggy}, {notched}, {toothed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  153 Moby Thesaurus words for "jagged":
     V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, asperous, battlemented, bent,
     boozy, broken, broken off, canned, capricious, changeable,
     changing, chipped, chopped, chopped-off, choppy, cornered,
     corrugated, cragged, craggy, crenate, crenated, crenellated,
     crenulate, crinkled, crooked, crotched, crumpled, decousu, dentate,
     dentated, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected,
     discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disguised, disjunctive,
     disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, drunk,
     embrasured, episodic, erose, erratic, fitful, forked, furcal,
     furcate, gashed, geniculate, geniculated, gravelly, harsh,
     herky-jerky, hooked, impulsive, incised, incoherent, inconsistent,
     inconstant, indented, inebriated, intermittent, interrupted,
     ironbound, irregular, jaggy, jerky, knee-shaped, lacerate,
     lacerated, mercurial, motley, muddled, mutable, nicked,
     nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial,
     nonstandard, nonuniform, notched, parenthetic, patchy, pixilated,
     plastered, pluralistic, pointed, ragged, rockbound, rocky, rough,
     rugged, rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawlike, sawtooth, scabrous,
     scalloped, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scrappy, serrate,
     serrated, serrulated, sharp, sharp-cornered, snagged, snaggled,
     snaggy, snatchy, spasmodic, spiked, sporadic, spotty, stony,
     suspended, toothed, unconnected, unequable, unequal, uneven,
     unjoined, unlevel, unorthodox, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady,
     unsuccessive, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated,
     variform, various, varying, wavering, wrinkled, zigzag