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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.

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

To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.

(obsolete, or dialectal) To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.

A skewer.

A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.

(obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.

(obsolete) A kind of large pistol.

The unbranched antler of a young deer.

To skewer food, for roasting over a fire

To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags

(informal) Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.

(Australia slang, derogatory) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.

(Australia slang, New Zealand, obsolete) An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.

A misty shower; dew.

(UK, dialect) To be misty; to drizzle.

(graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.

(food) Dag sandwich.