[f. JAG sb.1 + -Y1.] Abounding in or characterized by jags; jagged; in Sc., prickly.

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1717.  Addison, trans. Ovid’s Met., III. 75.

        Three tongues he brandish’d when he charg’d his Foes;
His Teeth stood jaggy in Three dreadful Rows.

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1849.  Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, iii. § 16. 82. Four branches of thistle leaves … throwing their jaggy spines down.

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1865.  E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 425. The narrow road between these dark, jaggy, craggy heights.

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