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/dæɡ/ · noun
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..
To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe.
1859-1865, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
He was one of the first significant private buyers of wool in New Zealand, playing a major part in bringing respectability to what at first was a very diverse group. He pioneered the pelletising of dag waste.
The development of dags first requires some faeces to adhere to wool, but this is only the initial step in accumulation.
[Researchers] note that free pellets are characteristic of healthy sheep and that if sheep consistently produced free pellets, wool staining and dag formation would not occur.
[…] and the use of tanniferous forages may affect faecal consistency, reducing the formation of dag (faeces-coated wool).
Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.
After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.
Use dag when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dag means 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..
Common synonyms include daglock, taglock, dagging, dung tag.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe.
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