† ˈknagged, a. Obs.
Also 5 gnaggid.
[f. knag n.1 + -ed2.]
Furnished with protuberances, knobs, or knots; knobbed, toothed, jagged.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 4973 A tre, þat was tried, all of tru gold,..And frut on yt fourmyt fairest of shap, Of mony kynd þat was knyt [ed. 1874 kuyt], knagged aboue. c 1430 Virg. 2nd Compl. 97 in Pol., Rel. & L. Poems 211 Thou scourge maad of ful touȝ skyn, Knottid & gnaggid. 1601 Holland Pliny xi. xxxvii, In some she hath made them [horns] knagged and branched, as in Deere. 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature v. 32 A knagg'd staffe. 1711 J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 394 Narrow, knagged Alatern. |