jagged
/ˈd͡ʒæɡɪd/ adjective C1- Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
- Having a rough quality.
- Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.
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On its jagged face was spread-eagled some dark, irregular object.
The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip.
It was a very wide ditch, and when they crept up to the edge and looked into it they could see it was also very deep, and there were many big, jagged rocks at the bottom.
Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
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