Dag

Quick meaning: Dag is a noun meaning A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.

Meaning

A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.

More Meanings

1. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
2. (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
3. A skewer.
4. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
5. 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.
6. (obsolete, or dialectal) To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
7. (obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.

Example Sentences

To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe.

Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.

The development of dags first requires some faeces to adhere to wool, but this is only the initial step in accumulation.

[…] and the use of tanniferous forages may affect faecal consistency, reducing the formation of dag (faeces-coated wool).

Word Forms

• dags
• dagging
• dagged

Synonyms for dag

Depending on context, synonyms include daglock, taglock, dagging, dirtball, scruffbag, slob.

Related Words

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