There was a ragged noise of bleating from the flock penned in a corner of the yard. Two red-armed men seized a sheep, hauled it to a large bath that stood in the middle of the yard, and there held it, more or less in the bath, whilst a third man baled a dirty yellow liquid over its body.
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Wearing tattered clothes.
a ragged person
She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.
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Rough; shaggy; rugged.
Seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
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run someone ragged
To exhaust; to demand excessive effort or work from somebody.
They’ve been running him ragged trying to keep up with the demand for new features.
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a ragged coat
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a ragged sail
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ragged rocks
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A ragged coat may cover an honest man.
Tatoeba · #33112
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Truth has a good face, but ragged clothes.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas.