Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jague n.

[? jakes n.1 , since both are seen as repositories of filth]

(UK Und.) a ditch.

[UK]Dekker ‘Canting Song’ O per se O O1: To mill each Ken, let Cove bring then, / through Ruffmans Jauge or Laund.
[UK]Dekker ‘Canters Dict.’ Eng. Villainies (9th edn) n.p.: Jague, a Ditch.
[Ire]Head Eng. Rogue I 50: Jague, A Ditch.
[Ire]Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
[UK]R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Jague, a Ditch.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Jague A Ditch.
[UK]J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 196: [as cit. 1612].
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Scoundrel’s Dict. 17: Ditch – Jague.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[US]Matsell Vocabulum.