Obs. exc. in Comb. and dial. [See FAG v.]
1. Something that hangs loose; a flap. In quot. attrib. See also FAG-END.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, B j a. The federis at the wynge next the body be calde the flagg or the fagg federis.
2. = FAG-END in various senses.
c. 1580. J. Chappell, Will, in Noake, Worcestershire Relics (1877), 34. To his sister-in-law he [a clothier] leaves a ‘fagg,’ to make her a petticoat and ‘to Roger Massye, our curate, a white fagg to make him a coat.’
a. 1626. Middleton, Changeling, III. iii.
| To finish (as it were) and make the fagg | |
| Of all the Revels. |
1659. Fuller, The Appeal of Iniured Innocence, I. vi. 5. I … have presented the whole Cloath of his Book, (as he will find so, if pleasing to measure it over again) Length and Breadth, and List and Fag and all.
1775. Ash, Fag. The fringe at the end of a piece of cloth, the fringe at the end of a rope.
3. dial. a. An odd strip of land. b. Odds and ends of pasture-grass.
1880. Times, 17 Sept., 8/5. The fags along the sides of the river are being irretrievably damaged.
1884. Lawson, Upton Gloss., Fag, generally Old Fag, tufts of last year’s grass not eaten down.
