rag : Idioms & Phrases

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coral-rag

Cor"al-rag` noun
Definitions
  1. (geol.) Same as Corallian.
Webster 1913

pine-tar rag

  • noun baseball equipment consisting of a rag soaked with pine tar; used on the handle of a baseball bat to give a batter a firm grip
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Rag bolt

  • an iron pin with barbs on its shank to retain it in place.
Webster 1913

Rag carpet

  • a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow of cloth sewed together, end to end.
Webster 1913

rag day

  • noun a day on which university students hold a rag
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rag doll

  • noun a cloth doll that is stuffed and (usually) painted
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Rag dust

  • fine particles of ground-up rags, used in making papier-maché and wall papers.
Webster 1913

rag gourd

  • noun any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
    dishcloth gourd; strainer vine; sponge gourd; luffa.
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rag paper

  • noun paper made partly or wholly from rags
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rag trade

  • noun makers and sellers of fashionable clothing
    apparel industry; fashion industry; fashion business; garment industry.
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rag week

  • noun a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
    rag.
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Rag wheel

  • . (a) A chain wheel; a sprocket wheel . (b) A polishing wheel made of disks of cloth clamped together on a mandrel.
Webster 1913

Rag wool

  • wool obtained by tearing woolen rags into fine bits, shoddy.
Webster 1913

ragged orchid

  • noun fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
    Habenaria lacera; ragged orchis; green fringed orchis; ragged orchid.
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ragged orchis

  • noun fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
    Habenaria lacera; ragged orchis; green fringed orchis; ragged orchid.
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ragged robin

  • noun common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals
    Lychins floscuculi; cuckoo flower; Lychnis flos-cuculi.
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ragged-fringed orchid

  • noun fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
    Habenaria lacera; ragged orchis; green fringed orchis; ragged orchid.
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shag-rag

Shag"-rag` noun
Definitions
  1. The unkempt and ragged part of the community. Colloq. or Slang. R. Browning.
Webster 1913

Tag and rag

  • the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.
Webster 1913

tag-rag

Tag"-rag` noun & adjective
Etymology
See Tag an end, and Rag.
Definitions
  1. The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.
    If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man. Shak.
Webster 1913