RAG

noun a ragged edge.

2. rag ·vi to become tattered.

3. rag ·noun a sail, or any piece of canvas.

4. rag ·vt to break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

5. rag ·noun a shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.

6. rag ·vt to cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

7. rag ·noun hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.

8. rag ·noun a coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.

9. rag ·add. ·vt to play or compose (a piece, melody, ·etc.) in syncopated time.

10. rag ·noun a piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.

11. rag ·add. ·vt to dance to ragtime music, ·esp. in some manner considered indecorous.

12. rag ·vt to scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.