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Zigzag   /zˈɪgzæg/   Listen
noun
Zigzag  n.  
1.
Something that has short turns or angles. "The fanatics going straight forward and openly, the politicians by the surer mode of zigzag."
2.
(Arch.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons.
3.
(Fort.) See Boyau.


verb
Zigzag  v. t.  (past & past part. zigzagged; pres. part. zigzagging)  To form with short turns.


Zigzag  v. i.  To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.


adjective
Zigzag  adj.  Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.





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"Zigzag" Quotes from Famous Books



... enemy's disposal; a greater distance than a thousand paces was exceptional. They were always so placed that each of them could be seen by its neighbours on both sides, the line which they followed being a zigzag. ...
— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
... zigzag track up the side to the top, fixing in punga steps, so that horses could ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... the last slope of the zigzag descent to the shore, when he saw the figures of a man and woman moving slowly through a field of wild oats, not far from the trail. It seemed to his distorted fancy that the man was Cranch. The ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... white like big balls of snow. The aster salicifolius has a slender stem much branched above, long and narrow leaves, with violet, violet-purple or rarely white rays, and aster prenanthoides or crooked stem aster, may be told by its zigzag stem, its oblong, saw-toothed leaves and its violet rays. Two other beautiful species found hereabouts are the aster azureus, which blooms from August until after frost, with a slender but stiff and roughish stem, and many bright violet-blue flowers with short rays; and the aster Shortii, or ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... whatever she said—even when she was most rude to her grandmother—she was never offensive. No one could have helped feeling all the time that she was a little lady.—I thought I would venture a question with her. I stood still at a turn of the zigzag, and looked down into the hollow, still a good way below us, where I could now distinguish the form, on the opposite side of the pond, of a woman seated at the foot of a tree, and stooping ...
— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald


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