Citations:rag

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English citations of rag

noun: a card that appears to help no one

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  • 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)

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  • 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

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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.