cag

Meaning

Noun

• keg
• A projecting piece left on a tree or shrub when a branch is severed; knob; stump.

Origin

• From Middle English kag, of North Germanic origin, related to Old Norse kaggi, Swedish kagge.
• Shortening.
• Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kagô. Cognate with dialectal German Kag, Swedish kage. Possibly from the same root as Old Norse kaggi.