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The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.
The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag(“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old Englishċeacga(“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic*kagô (compare dialectal German Kag(“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage(“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage(“low bush”), of unknown origin.
Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 88:
‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
1985, Peter De Vries, chapter 9, in The Prick of Noon, Penguin, page 165:
Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).
1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, published 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396:
Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]
A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
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Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “agní1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 3
Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “jag”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 127
Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e jag, -a- ʒ. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 179
Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “jag”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, pages 58-59