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• Rag

  ·noun A ragged edge. II. Rag ·vi To become tattered. III. Rag ·noun A sail, or any piece of canvas...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• rag

  1) Bank notes. Money in general. The cove has no rag; the fellow has no money. 2) A farthing. TO R...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Coral-rag

  ·noun ·same·as <<Corallian>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Shag-rag

  ·noun The unkempt and ragged part of the community. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Tag-rag

  ·noun & ·adj The lowest class of people; the rabble. ·cf. <<Rag>>, tag, and bobtail, under <<Bobtail...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Rag Fair

  See Royal Mint Street. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• rag carrier

  An ensign. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rag fair

  An inspection of the linen and necessaries of a company of soldiers, commonly made by their officers...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rag water

  Gin, or any other common dram: these liquors seldom failing to reduce those that drink them to rags....

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• red rag

  The tongue. Shut your potatoe trap, and give your red rag a holiday; i.e. shut your mouth, and let y...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rag-bolts

  Those which are jagged or barbed, to prevent working in their holes, and to make them hold more secu...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pack-rag day

  Michaelmas-day, when servants change their places, and remove their clothes. Norf. and Suff. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• tag-rag and bobtail

  An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility of all sorts. To tag after one like ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose