v. t. - To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
n. - A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
n. - Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
n. - A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
n. - A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
n. - A ragged edge.
n. - A sail, or any piece of canvas.
v. i. - To become tattered.
v. t. - To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
v. t. - To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
v. t. - To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
v. t. - To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous.