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   rag

   /raɡ/

   noun

   • 1. a piece of old cloth, especially one torn from a larger piece, used typically for cleaning things: "he wiped his hands on an oily rag" Similar piece of clothbit/scrap/fragment of clothclothinformal:schmattearchaic:clout
   • ▪ old or tattered clothes: "street urchins dressed in rags" Similar tattered clothestorn clothingtattersold clothescast-offshand-me-downs
   • ▪ the smallest scrap of cloth or clothing: archaic "not a rag of clothing has arrived to us this winter"
   • 2. a newspaper, typically one regarded as being of low quality: informal "the local rag"
   • 3. a herd of colts: rare "a rag of colts roamed the moorland"

   verb

   • 1. give a decorative effect to (a painted surface) by applying paint, typically of a different colour, with a rag: "the background walls have been stippled above the dado rail and ragged below"
   • ▪ apply (paint) to a surface with a rag.

   Word Origin Middle English: probably a back-formation from ragged or raggy.

   Scrabble Points: 4

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