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sha'ge nf (Reg) 1 heavy coarse cloth made of flax or hemp and used as simple floor/body covering or as sacking: sackcloth; object made of sackcloth = zha'kë 2 woman's skirt made of sackcloth 3 potholder, hot pad shag|i't· vi to crawl on one's belly shah III§ nm 1 chess 2 check (in chess) 3 shah IV§ adv 1 standing on the hind legs: rearing up 2 frozen in place: petrified = shtang 3 alone and abandoned, wretched