Rag

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 Verb 2 Breton 2.1 Preposition 3 Dutch 3.1 Noun

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

Rag (plural Rags)

1. A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
2. Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
3. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
4. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
5. A ragged edge.
6. A sail, or any piece of canvas.
7. A piece of ragtime music.

   The song mapleleaf rag has a pleasant, bouncy tune.

Quotations

a coarse kind of rock

• 2003: the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stome — pebble stone, flint and rag stone. — Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, page 1.

Translations

• Bosnian prnje f, pl
• German: Lumpen m. (1), Fetzen m. (1)

Verb

to rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past ragged, past participle ragged)

1. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Breton

Preposition

rag

1. before

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Dutch

Noun

rag

1. spider-webbg:rag

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