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Definition of Jagging
1. jag [v] - See also: jag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jagging
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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