dag vs gimp

dag

noun
  • 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. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

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

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

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

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

verb
  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

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

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

gimp

noun
  • A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe. 

  • The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself. 

  • Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. 

  • A crippled leg. 

  • A character or ability that is underpowered. 

  • A limp or a limping gait. 

  • A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia. 

  • A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet. 

  • A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar 

verb
  • To limp; to hobble. 

  • To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of. 

  • To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped. 

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