Noah Webster
Shag
SHAG, noun
1. Coarse hair or nap, or rough wooly hair.
True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.
2. A kind of cloth having a long coarse nap.
3. In orinthology, an aquatic fowl, the Pelecanus graculus; in the north of England called the crave.
SHAG, adjective Hairy; shaggy.
SHAG, verb transitive
1. To make rough or hairy.
Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow.
2. To make rough or shaggy; to deform.