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Jagged

adjective

Having a sharply uneven surface or outline. Synonyms: jaggy, scraggy. "Scraggy cliffs"

Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed. Synonyms: erose, jaggy, notched, toothed.

Jag

verb

(past & past part. jagged; pres. part. jagging) (Written also jagg)

Cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge.

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"Jagged" Quotes from Famous Books

... journeyed on across innumerable lava-flows, turning and twisting a devious way among the adamantine billows of a petrified sea. Saw-toothed waves of lava vexed the surface of this weird ocean, while on either hand arose jagged crests and spiracles of fantastic shape. Our way led on past a bottomless pit and along and over the main stream of the latest ...

— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London

... round Saturn being plainly discernible. From the Milky Way my eyes at length wandered to the pines, and a puff of air laden with the odour of their resin and decaying brushwood decided me. I took a few preliminary sips of whisky, stretched my rusty limbs, and, placing one foot in a jagged crevice of the wall, swarmed painfully up. How slow and how hazardous was the process! I scratched my fingers, inured to the pen but a stranger to any rougher substance; I ruined my box-calf boots, I split my trousers at the ...

— Scottish Ghost Stories • Elliott O'Donnell

... "The Choir Invisible" has had for so many thousands of readers is assuredly due as much to the author's faithful historic treatment of the mighty stream of migration which had begun to spread through the jagged channels of the Alleghanies over the then unknown illimitable West as to his power to tell an absorbing story. When "The Choir Invisible" appeared, this perhaps most fascinating period of early American history had not been used as a background of his story by ...

— James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work • Macmillan Company

... kind whose concerns are so frequently brought forward in the imagery of the Iliad and Odyssey. Accordingly, the passage of Homer to which the existing peculiarity above described,' (viz. of pelting off dogs by large jagged stones,) 'affords the-most appropriate commentary, is the scene where Ulysses, disguised as a beggar, in approaching the farm of the swineherd, is fiercely assaulted by the dogs, but delivered by the master of the establishment. Pope's ...

— Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 • Thomas de Quincey

... the morning sun were tipping with fire the jagged and icy peaks of the Wellhorn and Matterhorn, those gigantic monarchs of the Bernese Oberland, when a slender youth came out to the door of a small herdsman's cottage near Meyringen, and looked up at the sky ...

— Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

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