a. Obs. Also 5 gnaggid. [f. KNAG sb.1 + -ED2.] Furnished with protuberances, knobs or knots; knobbed, toothed, jagged.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 4973. A tre, þat was tried, all of tru gold,… And frut on ye fourmyt fairest of shap, Of mony kynd þat was knyt [ed. 1874 kuyt], knagged aboue.
c. 1430. Virg. 2nd Compl., 97, in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems, 211. Thou scourge maad of ful touȝ skyn, Knottid & gnaggid.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XI. xxxvii. In some she hath made them [horns] knagged and branched, as in Deere.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, v. 32. A knagg’d staffe.
1711. J. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XXVII. 394. Narrow, knagged Alatern.
