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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Fag-end

· Fag·-end · IPA
01 n. An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, etc.
  1. 1.
    An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, etc.
  2. 2.
    The refuse or meaner part of anything.
    “The fag-end of business.” — Collier.