to scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.-a piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.-hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.-a shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.-a coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.-a ragged edge.-a sail, or any piece of canvas.-to become tattered.-to break (ore) into lumps for sorting.-to cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.