Word Finder - rag

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(in the plural) Tattered clothes.

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A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.

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A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.

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A ragged edge in metalworking.

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A sail, or any piece of canvas.

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A newspaper, magazine.

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A poor, low-ranking kicker.

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I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.

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To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.

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To become tattered.

He had this rag wrapped around his right hand.

He grabbed a rag and wet it before wiping her mouth.

I have laughed at the poor duck, with the red rag tied round its leg.

All I'll I need do is prepare a rag with my special solution...

Her eyes were closed and she was obviously unconscious, flopping like a rag doll.

In her bathroom, she wiped her face with a cold rag and took a couple of aspirin.

She scooted the chair under the table and tossed the rag in the hamper.

Cynthia removed the rag from her face and stared at her friend.

Cynthia lowered the rag again.

She wrapped her hand around the doorknob and turned it from steel into a rag and pushed the door open.

The cool rag on her face helped to master the nausea.

Grabbing a rag, she exited the laundry into the courtyard.

It lies in a hilly district rich in coal and iron, while a hard basaltic intrusion known as Rowley rag is largely quarried.

On the seat opposite me sat my big rag doll, Nancy, in a new gingham dress and a beruffled sunbonnet, looking at me out of two bead eyes.

A rag rug is a great country design element.

Connie returned with a cool damp rag which she placed on Lisa's face and then the back of her neck.

The assailant pushed a rag against the sleeping girl's nose and mouth and quietly, but with surprising speed, was down the stairs and out the front door in the matter of seconds.

In America, hand knotted rugs and rag rugs made plus imports from England.

Carmen wiped Destiny's face and eyes with the cool rag and used a tissue to wipe her nose.

Cynthia dropped to the couch and held the cool rag to her face as a new wave of nausea clutched her stomach.

Cynthia clamped the rag to her face again.

As soon as the mother entered the house, he pocketed the phone, scaled the fence at a low corner, crossed to the surprised boy in a few steps, and placed a rag over his face.

The good news is this rag of a newspaper doesn't seem to buy Mr. Youngblood as a certifiable clairvoyant.

You heard her talk about the million dollar reward that rag of a newspaper is offering and she's poor as a church mouse on food stamps.

If I hadn't taken time to apply my sleeping solution to the rag, I'd have been in the process of taking them just as that police car with its flashing lights came rolling up!

My specially soaked rag was secure in a plastic bag so I withdrew it and had it over the child's face before she turned to see who entered.

She wiped her mouth again and flung the rag against the wall, chest heaving.

Her dress was a half a step above the rag she used to polish the furniture and her hair had longer roots than Elmer Fudd's garden.

Jackson flung him against the wall like a rag doll.

Cynthia was as limp as a rag doll as he pulled down her skirt, which was heavy with water.

Carmen dropped the rag and stared at him.

She tossed the wet rag at Denton and stood looking on as he wiped the blood from his face.

He dropped the rag from his mouth and rolled his eyes, sighing with exasperation.

All these stones were of course imported, as the Babylonian had no stone (except a rough coral rag) at hand as the Egyptian had.

The two leading ships had not seen each other for 70 days and met off the Lizard, from which point they ran a neck-and-neck race before a strong westerly wind, with every rag of canvas set.

Often the formula was written on a strip of rag or a scrap of papyrus and tied round the neck of the person for whom it was intended.

Every variety of philosophical and theological opinion was represented there; most of my colleagues were -ists of one sort or another; and I, the man without a rag of a belief to cover himself with, could not fail to have some of the uneasy feelings which must have beset the historical fox when, after leaving the trap in which his tail remained, he presented himself to his normally elongated companions.

The embarrassing thing is my mom was a professional dressmaker before she retired and still makes rag dolls and the like as a hobby.

Rag may be roughly equated with the Western term mode or scale.

There are very exciting plans on to drawing board for a National RAG week in December.

Pegasus Aviation Pegasus make the rag and tube AX2000 range, plus the extremely fast, very pretty and alarmingly expensive fully composite CT2K.

When dry, remove all fluff, dust and hairs with a soft rag or brush.

Labor doesn't need the Mail; it has won two landslides in the face of violent opposition from the rag.

If you have applied too much lube, simply wipe off the excess with a clean rag.

For matte paper it's epson's enhance matte or the Hahnemuehle photo rag.

Southampton are a big, rag bag of a team and they slowly nudged their way back into the game.

Rather than breaking her limbs like rag doll back flipping over Niagara she doggy paddles back to safety in 20 seconds flat.

A simple two or three hook paternoster rig baited with rag or crab is the best way to approach this spot.

I am helping coordinate the women rag pickers here.

From the tip of their heads to the end of their toes these little rag doll playmates are very special in every way.