Crossword clues for tatter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tatter \Tat"ter\, n.
One who makes tatting.
--Caulfield & S. (Doct. of
Needlework).
Tatter \Tat"ter\, n. [Icel. t["o]tur, t["o]ttur, pl. t["o]trar, ?["o]ttrar; cf. Norw. totra, pl. totror, LG. taltern tatters. A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags.
--Shak.
Tatter \Tat"ter\, v. t. [p. p. Tattered.] To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, tatrys (plural) "slashed garments," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse töturr "rags, tatters, tattered garment," cognate with Old English tættec, tætteca "rag, tatter." Related: Tatters.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing. 2 A person engaged in tatting. vb. To destroy an article of clothing by shredding.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "tatter".
She had forgotten about the tattered wrap and its treasured contents in the time Acorn had been with her.
Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.
Maren traversed every street of Alameda, crisscrossing the banana-shaped island, even going down Eagle Avenue and the tattered neighborhood of her childhood.
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Dressed in gaudy tatters and besmudged with dirt, Alec watched gleefully as Seregil juggled, walked ropes, and mugged for the crowd.
Tahquil drew out the tattered aulmoniere, one of the few keepsakes she had salvaged from Tamhania.
Out of the stillness of a strange love, I saw her in a tattered wig, a pair of blue glasses on her face, bangles on her arms.
He settled down at last in the kitchen, blinds open to the cobalt-blue sky, suburban-style row houses lit up in the efflorescence of dawn like tattered candy boxes.
Inside was a tattered nylon blue book bag, the same kind Alex had carried to school.
Raeve cast one look back at them all, shook his head, and as the tattered intruders advanced, suddenly ducked and bolted through them, making for the door.
When the wind blows outside, dust still clouds up from the meal bin through the chute into the tattered bolter that hangs crooked in its frame.
Father Balbi looked like a peasant, but he was in better condition than I, his clothes were not torn to shreds or covered with blood, his red flannel waistcoat and purple breeches were intact, while my figure could only inspire pity or terror, so bloodstained and tattered was I.
She looked out to sea and saw some crofters in a barely seaworthy little boat, heaving their tattered nets over the side into the water.
I carried, to my feet, to the tattered places in my coat, and the cuts and scratches I had received from the thorns.
His palm rubbed the tatters of her dress against her, using leather against velvet as a fiery conductor of his will until her struggles deepened to tortured writhing.