Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Masonry built with undressed flat stones of about the thickness of a brick, and having a rough exterior, whence the name.
- noun A manufacture of carpeting or similar heavy fabric from strips of rag, which are either knitted or woven together. Compare
rag carpet , under rag.
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Examples
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The floor was of slate but strewn with rugs, some of rag-work others of badgers 'skins.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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