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zigzag

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1. zigzag - Noun

2. zigzag - Adjective

3. zigzag - Verb

4. zigzag - Adverb

5. zigzag - Adjective Satellite

6. Zigzag - Proper noun

Meaning

Something that has short turns or angles.

A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.

See Boyau.

Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.

To form with short turns.

To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. William Cowper

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. Robert Fortune

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose. Beck

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cloudy all day. Showery on mtns. to eastward at noon. Fine thunderstorm evening, with grand display of zigzag intensely vivid & very near with keen cracks [and] grand trailing rain ... Visited Elk ranch. About sixty old & young. Old bulls carry horns in noble style & grand airs. John Muir

She got up, grew her legs longer to get her body out of the water and shook herself dry. Then she wandered off, following a zigzag path along the border between Life and Death, her tail wagging so hard, the tip of it beat the river into a froth behind her. Garth Nix

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