dag

dekagramma

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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 dangle dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
Wedgwood

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.

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

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.

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.

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The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.

A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.

Now, wide-eyed and unfashionably excited ("I’m such a dag!" she remarks several times), she has the leading role of Viola in the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Twelfth Night, opening on August 10 at the Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse.

What did you think about Mark calling you a dag?

To me a dag is a person who doesn't have a lot of pride in their appearance or the way they present themselves — the way they sing and how they hold themselves basically. But it didn't really bother me. He said, "You're such a dag, you're cool." I took it as "you're a laidback person". The way they cut it and edited it made it sound on TV like I was grumpy about it, but I wasn't. It was pretty funny how it came across.

SHE is one of Hollywood's most beautiful leading ladies and has access to any fashion designers, so then why is Catherine Zeta-Jones dressing like a bag lady?

A graduate of film studies in New York, May has had a hand in editing two of his three videos. Each casts him as a bespectacled dag in a world of glamour.

Mickey: Dags! D&39; ya like dags?

There it was again, that old Gaelic verb pronounced &39;scriss,&39; that those involved in fighting talk apparently exuded on occasion. It could have been &39;D&39;ya wanna buy a dag?&39; it was all the same.