See jag in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles",
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"ref": "1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 323–7:",
"text": "The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.",
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"ref": "1909, Arthur Symons, London: A Book of Aspects, self-published, page 3:",
"text": "The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.",
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"ref": "1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 16, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:",
"text": "Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.",
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"text": "I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.",
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"ref": "1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, published 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396:",
"text": "Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]",
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"ref": "1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, published 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396:",
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