Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of fishing for the striped-bass, etc., in which a red rag is used as a fly.
- noun In mining, the first and roughest separation of the ore (mixed with more or less veinstone), by which the entirely worthless portion is selected and rejected.
- noun A scolding; a tongue-lashing.
- noun In mech., the rough-dressing of a grindstone; the operation of taking imperfections out of the working-face of a grindstone.
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- verb Present participle of
rag .
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Examples
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Yes, there would be the initial black eye, and ragging from the peanut gallery.
IL LT GOV Candidate Scott Cohen (D) drops knife, out of race. | RedState 2010
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We need the law to enshrine the word ragging as a crime so that freshers and parents feel empowered to go to police stations and police officers to not think that it's a trivial matter, which can be resolved through a 'compromise'.
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Many people have heard the terms ragging, washing or strie.
RNews - TOP STORIES 2009
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Many people have heard the terms ragging, washing or strie.
RNews - TOP STORIES 2009
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Many people have heard the terms ragging, washing or strie.
RNews - TOP STORIES 2008
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Many people have heard the terms ragging, washing or strie.
RNews - TOP STORIES 2008
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Just like that -- arm in arm, joking, "ragging" -- she used to walk with him round about the home in Ireland -- the world to one another and none else in the world, except the mother who was so intimately and inseparably of them that years past her death they still spoke of her as if she were alive.
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I got quite exhausted last term ragging the Tea-cake.”
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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He called ragging "a social crime" with both "psychological and criminal" origins.
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(Last night on TV, they mentioned that the Maharashtra state government has gotten complaints that the film is promoting "ragging" - hazing of incoming freshmen as depicted in the movie - and will investigate.
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