Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rag, or a part torn and hanging: commonly applied to thin and flexible fabrics, as cloth, paper, or leather: chiefly used in the plural.
- noun A ragged fellow; a tatterdemalion.
- To rend or tear into rags or shreds; wear to tatters.
- To fall into rags or shreds; become ragged.
- To chatter; gabble; jabber.
- To stir actively and laboriously.
- noun One who tats, or makes tatting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes tatting.
- noun A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural.
- transitive verb To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
shred oftorn cloth ; an individualitem of torn and raggedclothing . - noun A person engaged in
tatting . - verb To destroy an article of clothing by shredding.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small piece of cloth or paper
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Examples
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Yeats had his own solution: "An aged man is but a paltry thing, /A tattered coat upon a stick, unless /Soul clap hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress."
Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone? Peter Davis 2012
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Yeats had his own solution: "An aged man is but a paltry thing, /A tattered coat upon a stick, unless /Soul clap hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress."
Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone? Peter Davis 2012
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All things tatter and fade like a garment; You cast them off like a change of clothes.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Yeats had his own solution: "An aged man is but a paltry thing, /A tattered coat upon a stick, unless /Soul clap hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress."
Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone? Peter Davis 2012
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All things tatter and fade like a garment; You cast them off like a change of clothes.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Her cane, made from a tatter umbrella, rights her slender body as best it can, but still she stumbles on the uneven path.
Eudora Welty (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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All things tatter and fade like a garment; You cast them off like a change of clothes.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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All things tatter and fade like a garment; You cast them off like a change of clothes.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Her cane, made from a tatter umbrella, rights her slender body as best it can, but still she stumbles on the uneven path.
Archive 2009-01-01 ____Maggie 2009
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Yeats had his own solution: "An aged man is but a paltry thing, /A tattered coat upon a stick, unless /Soul clap hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress."
Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone? Peter Davis 2012
hernesheir commented on the word tatter
Cross; peevish. Old mistress is tedious tatter. --old provincial term from Kent England.
May 17, 2011