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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



... wants to come back and find you squeezed into a twenty-inch-waist, blue muslin rag you wore at parting? No wonder Al didn't succeed at bank clerking, but had to make his hit at diplomacy and the high arts. Some hit at that to be legationed at Saint James! He's such a big gun that ...
— The Melting of Molly • Maria Thompson Daviess
... right," admitted his father with a sigh. "I'm getting on pretty well, I believe, but the slightest effort does me up. This wretched fever leaves me as limp as a rag. Never mind—what you've told me is the best tonic I ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... boat enough, With a rag for a sail, we can sweep through the sky. Who flies not to-night, when means ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt
... twice seventeen are thirty-four put down four and carry three eyes, and then she looked in the hand for bits of glass, and there were fortunately no bits of glass there. And then she said to two chubby-legged Princes who were sturdy though small, "Bring me in the Royal rag-bag; I must snip and stitch and cut and contrive." So those two young Princes tugged at the Royal rag-bag and lugged it in, and the Princess Alicia sat down on the floor with a large pair of scissors and ...
— The Magic Fishbone - A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7 • Charles Dickens
... the bronze cross on the veteran's faded coat, the staff saluted; for the cross, though it were hung on rag's, wherever it went was entitled by custom to the salute of officers and ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer


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