rag
Tattered clothes (clothing).
Example
“—What a pretty dress! —What, this old rag?”
Other meanings
A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
A ragged edge in metalworking.
A kind of
- piece of cloth
Kinds of rag
- pine-tar rag
Word history
From Old Norse "rǫgg" (tuft; shagginess).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “rag” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.