1. A projecting point on an edge or surface; = JAG sb.1 4; a protuberance, swelling. rare. ? Obs.
1715. trans. Pancirollus’ Rerum Mem., II. App. 440. The Beginnings … are a little rude … till the little Jogs are rubbed off by Experience and Time.
1744–50. W. Ellis, Mod. Husbandm., III. II. 73 (E. D. S.). Hogs … jogged under their throats … we discharge by cutting, or running a red-hot iron through the bunch or jogg. Ibid., IV. I. 127.
2. A right-angled notch, recess, or step, in a surface; any space cut out by such a notch. U.S.
‘In the States, jog is used to signify any deviation from a straight line or even surface’ (Farmer, Americanisms, 1889).
1887. Morgan, Contrib. Amer. Ethnol., 157. The thickness of the main wall … diminishing every story by retreating jogs on the inside, from bottom to top.
1884. B. B. Warfield, in Chr. Treas., Feb., 91/1. The parts historically dovetail together, jog to jog, into one connected and consistent whole.
1893. Mahan, Sea Power & Fr. Rev., iii. 80. Her [Spain’s] maritime advantages were indeed diminished by the jog which Portugal takes out of her territory.
