zacken

From Middle High German zacke, from Old High German *zacho, from Proto-Germanic *takkô (“spike, prickle”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sa.kən], [ˈt͡sa.kŋ̩]

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zacken (weak, third-person singular present zackt, past tense zackte, past participle gezackt, auxiliary haben)

1. to provide with a jagged edge (e.g. by shaping or trimming)
   • 1982, Gudrun Embacher, Der Narr Wohlgemuth, Berg / Starnberger See: Hohenstaufen Verlag, →ISBN, page 186:

     Der Arno glänzte schaumig wie Opal, bald zerschmolz er zu milchigem Dunst, bald wieder gerann er zu dichtestem Flamingorot, Schichten von Halbedelstein waren übereinandergelegt, und ferne zackten Schneegipfel den Himmel; oh, ein Himmel ohne Drohung, ohne die ungeheure Wolkenwucht des Nordens, mild wie auf den Madonnenbildern eines Fra Angelico.

     The Arno shimmered foamy like opal, sometimes it melted into a milky haze, sometimes it coagulated again into the thickest flamingo red, layers of semiprecious stone were superimposed, and distant snow peaks jagged the sky; oh, a sky without threat, without the enormous cloud force of the north, mild as in the Madonna pictures by Fra Angelico.

Often as its past participle, gezackt (“jagged”).

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• “zacken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon