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Rag   /ræg/   Listen
noun
Rag  n.  
1.
A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment. "Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags." "Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty."
2.
pl. Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress. "And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."
3.
A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. "The other zealous rag is the compositor." "Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag."
4.
(Geol.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
5.
(Metal Working) A ragged edge.
6.
A sail, or any piece of canvas. (Nautical Slang) "Our ship was a clipper with every rag set."
Rag bolt, an iron pin with barbs on its shank to retain it in place.
Rag carpet, a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow strips of cloth sewed together, end to end.
Rag dust, fine particles of ground-up rags, used in making papier-maché and wall papers.
Rag wheel.
(a)
A chain wheel; a sprocket wheel.
(b)
A polishing wheel made of disks of cloth clamped together on a mandrel.
Rag wool, wool obtained by tearing woolen rags into fine bits, shoddy.


verb
Rag  v. t.  To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. (Prov. Eng.)


Rag  v. t.  
1.
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
2.
To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.


Rag  v. t.  
1.
(Music) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. (Colloq.)
2.
To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous. (Colloq. or Slang)


Rag  v. i.  (past & past part. ragged; pres. part. ragging)  To become tattered. (Obs.)





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"Rag" Quotes from Famous Books



... after all! a big, fine generous-hearted fellow, who doesn't bother to keep accounts to the last penny. I heartily approve of Setebos, and Bettie ought not to rag Him so. She would think it tremendously nice and boyish of me if I were to go impulsively and ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... to ride on back," proclaimed Sarah who never, by any chance, seemed to agree with anyone else. "I want to ride with my feet hanging over. And I'm going to tie a string to Shirley's rag doll and drag it in the dust—like the pictures in the Early ...
— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence
... against the high silliness of the militarist it is particularly effective. It is the laughter of wholesome men that will finally end war. The stern, strong, silent man will cease to trouble us only when we have stripped him of his last rag of pretension and touched through to the quick of his vanity with the realization of his apprehended foolishness. Literature will have failed humanity if it is so blinded by the monstrous agony in Flanders ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... her?' said Mrs. Hauksbee. 'Do you see what I meant about the clothes falling off? If I were a man I would perish sooner than be seen with that rag-bag. And yet, she ...
— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling
... perhaps epargne, a save-all or hold-all. Here seems no more difficulty in the transfer of the name than in that of chiffonier, from a rag-basket to ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 48, Saturday, September 28, 1850 • Various


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