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dagge

dagge is the obsolete form of dag.

Meaning of dag

Noun (1)

dag (plural dags)

  1. A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
  2. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
    • To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe.1597-98 1597–8, Joseph_Hall_(bishop) Joseph Hall Satires, Book 5, number 1

Noun (2)

dag (plural dags)

  1. A skewer.
  2. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
  3. (obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.
    • Even when my dag was levelled at his heart1515, Thomas Kyd, Arden of Feversham
  4. (obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
    • The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

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Forms of dagge

pluraldagges

Questions about dagge

What is dagge the obsolete form of?
Dagge is the obsolete form of dag.

Words near dagge in the dictionary

  1. Dagestanians
  2. Dagestanis
  3. Dagg
  4. dagga
  5. daggas
  6. dagge
  7. dagged
  8. dagged out
  9. dagger
  10. dagger board
  11. dagger boards

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