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Shag   /ʃæg/   Listen
verb
Shag  v. t.  (past & past part. shagged; pres. part. shagging)  To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. "Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies."


noun
Shag  n.  
1.
Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. "True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn."
2.
A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
3.
(Com.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
4.
(Zool.) Any species of cormorant.


adjective
Shag  adj.  Hairy; shaggy.





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"Shag" Quotes from Famous Books



... about to conceive a poem—the hero King Arthur—the scenery in part the vanished Land of Lyonesse, between the mainland and the Scilly Isles.... Then evening fell. He arose to go; and I agreed to drive him on his way. He demanded a pipe, and produced a package of very common shag. By great good luck my sexton had about him his own short black dudheen, which accordingly the Minstrel filled and fired. Wild language occupied the way, until we shook farewell at Combe. 'This,' said Tennyson, 'has indeed been a day to be remembered.'" ...
— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon
... the wind and open to the sun. There he sat him down and proceeded to enjoy the pleasures of social converse with the warders on guard, an occupation pleasingly diversified by an occasional black-jack of ale and innumerable pipefuls of Kinnectikut shag. A highly respected man among his fellow-citizens ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen
... collier-brig to anchor; nevertheless, in the hurry and scare, the thoughts of that new battery and Lord Nelson, and above all in the fog, they believed it. So that there was scarcely any room to stand, at the Watch-point, inside the Shag-rock; while in church there was no one who could help being there, by force ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... "doctor" of the Santee nation who "was warmly and neatly clad with a match coat, made of turkies feathers, which makes a pretty show, seeming as if it was a garment of the deepest silk shag."[44] ...
— Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States • William Henry Holmes
... and found a front seat; there was a working man next to them smoking shag in a clay pipe; he looked at Micky and Esther doubtfully, ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres


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