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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



... crushing the bizarre satin rag of a programme that they had given her. "I have never heard Madame Mansoni," she added. I glanced at her; there was a blush on her cheek. She had heard of Madame Mansoni, although she had not ...
— The King's Mirror • Anthony Hope
... rag, a mock at first,—erelong When men have bled and women wept, To guard its precious folds from wrong, Even they who shrunk, even they who slept, Shall leap to bless it and to save. Strike! for ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. II. (of II.), Jewish Poems: Translations • Emma Lazarus
... right to follow the Governor and precede the Chief Justice at official ceremonies, and peace amongst the devout was only restored by the Bishop's graceful relinquishment of a position to which his legal right was undeniable. Even now the title 'My Lord' as applied to Bishops acts as a red rag on many ex-Dissenting bulls, and they are as jealous of the slightest official preference of the Church of England as if their dearest religious liberties were ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
... eight o'clock when Mrs. Snow, having finished washing the dishes—she allowed no one to assist her in this operation since the time when she caught Captain Jerry absent-mindedly using the dust rag instead of the dishcloth—went upstairs to her patient. Shortly afterward Elsie came down, wearing ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... clothes, and dirty corners,—work enough, I should say, to last some woman an hour or two. She might get out her pieces of calico, and, with the children's help, make a new spread, maybe a tidy apron, and she might braid a rag mat out of bits, and a hundred things that go toward comfort. No: all the work isn't done up yet, Miss Sylvie," and Jane Morgan stopped just then, to knit the seam-stitch in a ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas


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