Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Diminutive of rag, 12 (which see).
- noun A groove cut in a stone, especially in the upper stones of a wall, to hold the edge of a roof.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Ragged; rough.
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- adjective obsolete
ragged ;rough
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Examples
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The town looks raggie only now that the latino community has been buying homes and opening business is this town coming to life.
Plainfield mayor wants to get rid of NJ's first Hispanic police chief Dan 2007
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In some of our voiages wee haue seene diuers hard raggie stones, great pebbles, and a kinde of grey stone like vnto marble, of which the inhabitants make their hatchets to cleeue wood.
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In some of our voiages wee haue seene diuers hard raggie stones, great pebbles, and a kinde of grey stone like vnto marble, of which the inhabitants make their hatchets to cleeue wood.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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In some of our voyages we haue seene diuers hard raggie stones, great pebbles, and a kinde of gray stone like vnto marble of which the inhabitants make their hatchets to cleaue wood.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Every time he scores, it's a dagger to the heart of the crumbling raggie empire.
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