Citations:rag

English citations of rag

noun: a card that appears to help no one

• 2007, Sam O'Connor, How to Dominate $1 and $2 No Limit Hold 'Em, page 101:

  A rag on the river means it's showdown time.

noun: fog, mist, accompanied by drizzle (Yorkshire, Devon, etc)

• 1876, Madox-Brown, Dwale Bluth, book II, v:

  Hare sher cumes at learst; loitering-louching vrough th' rag an' reek.

noun: a group of colts

1949, Stanislaus Lynch, Hounds Are Running!‎^[1], page 38:

Few breeders of bloodstock would nowadays refer to their valuable thoroughbreds as a Rag of Colts.

1994, Jane E.M. Robinson, The Amazon Chronicles‎^[2], page 294:

With the foals she'll drop and with the rag of colts the stallion will get on the other mares, we'll have a sauad of tall ones in four seasons, and plenty of breedin' stock to boot.