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• jaggedly — adverb with a ragged and uneven appearance a long beard, raggedly cut • Syn: ↑raggedly • Derived from adjective: ↑jagged, ↑ragged (for: ↑raggedly) …   Useful english dictionary

• Cigar cutter — Illustration of a nineteenth century cigar cutter, published in 1859.[1] A cigar cutter is a mechanical device designed to cut one end off a cigar so that it may be properly smoked. Although some cigars are cut on both ends, or twirled at both… …   Wikipedia

• Cigar — For other uses, see Cigar (disambiguation). From the Spanish cigarro cigar , which was perhaps derived from the Spanish cigarra cicada (OED) …   Wikipedia

• lacerate — I. transitive verb ( ated; ating) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin laceratus, past participle of lacerare to tear; akin to Greek lakis tear Date: 15th century 1. to tear or rend roughly ; wound jaggedly 2. to cause sharp mental or emotional… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• raggedly — adverb 1. in a ragged uneven manner I took the cigarette he offered, drawing at it raggedly • Syn: ↑unevenly 2. in a ragged irregular manner a stone wall trails raggedly through the woods • Syn: ↑stragglingly 3. with a ragged and uneven app …   Useful english dictionary

• jagged — mid 15c., from verb jaggen (c.1400) to pierce, slash, cut; to notch or nick; cut or tear unevenly, Scottish and northern English, of unknown origin. Originally of garments with regular toothed edges; meaning with the edge irregularly cut is from… …   Etymology dictionary

• snag — I. noun Etymology: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse snagi clothes peg Date: circa 1587 1. a. a tree or branch embedded in a lake or stream bed and constituting a hazard to navigation b. a standing dead tree 2. a rough sharp or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• jagged — jag|ged [ˈdʒægıd] adj [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: jag cut in the edge of a piece of cloth (14 18 centuries), perhaps from Arabic az zagaye the lance ] having a rough or pointed edge or surface ▪ the broken bottle s jagged edge ▪ the jagged rocks of …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• jagged — adj. 1 with an unevenly cut or torn edge. 2 deeply indented; with sharp points. Derivatives: jaggedly adv. jaggedness n …   Useful english dictionary