Zigzag: Definition and part of speech

Zigzag

  1. a. Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
  2. n. Something that has short turns or angles.
  3. n. A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
  4. n. See Boyau.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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