vbl. sb.1 [f. JAG v.1 + -ING1.] The action of JAG v.1 in its different senses; indenting, piercing; also concr. a jagged edge, an indented border, a fringe, etc.
1502. Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. of York (1830), 14. Six tapettes for the sompter horses with the lynyng grayling jagging.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 146. Not your pinches, your purles, your floury iaggings, superfluous enterlacings, and puffings vp.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 590. I account the Iagging of Pinkes, and Gilly Flowers, to be like the Inequality of Oake-Leaues, of Vine-Leaues, or the like.
1776. Da Costa, Elem. Conchol., 13. The jaggings or toothings of the contour.
1815. Polehampton, Gallery Nat. & Art (1821), V. 186. The gum … is obtained by wounding the bark in different parts of the body of the tree, or by what has been called jagging.
b. Comb. Jagging-board Metall., an inclined board on which ore-slimes are washed, as in a buddle; jagging-iron, an instrument used for ornamenting pastry, etc., now made in the form of a wheel with teeth, set in a handle.
1598. Florio, Speronélle, a brasen toole with a spoone at one end, and a rowell or little spur at the other, that cookes vse to cut out or marke their paste meates, called a iagging iron.
1718. Mrs. Mary Eales, Receipts, 84. When you use it, cut it with a Jagging-Iron in long Slips.
Jagging vbl. sb.2: see JAG v.2
