rag

Tattered clothes (clothing).

—What a pretty dress! —What, this old rag?

It's semiformal. I can't show up dressed in rags!

A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.

Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, toss'd, / And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,

[…]even by the law of their own might and malice, not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.

A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.

For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag

The other zealous rag is the compositor, / Who in an angle where the ants inhabit, / (The emblems of his labors) will sit curl'd

A ragged edge in metalworking.

A sail, or any piece of canvas.

Our ship was a clipper, with every rag set, stunsails, sky-scrapers, and all.

"'Oh yes, that's all very well, but we haven't done with it yet,' said the lad, 'we shall have it worse directly,' and he ordered them to furl every rag but the mizen."

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

To become tattered.

To menstruate.

A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.

the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.