Definition of "deg"

deg¹

/dɛɡ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural degs
1. (mathematics, countable) Abbreviation of degree.
2. (motor racing, uncountable) Clipping of degradation.

deg²

/dɛɡ/

verb
third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged
1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
  Quotations
  Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
  1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, stanza 3, page 53