Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To notch or groove irregularly.
- noun A ragged piece; a torn strip.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun construction A
groove orslot , often cut in a masonry wall or other vertical surface, for inserting an insetflashing component such as a reglet.
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Examples
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Why, why, why is the United States still squandering lives and badly needed treasure fighting a raggle-taggle of foreign fighters defending their countries that have been invaded and occupied by Americans?????
The year in politics 2009
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As the author of "The Threepenny Opera," Brecht would surely have approved of it, and I also think he would have liked the musical settings by Mike Przygoda and Mikhail Fiksel of his lyrics, which are played with raggle-taggle abandon by a band whose randomly dressed members, much like the actors, give the charming impression of having poked their heads into the theater out of curiosity.
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He savoured his drive to Winchester racecourse from his home (an empty-feeling home now that his wife had run off with a raggle-taggle TV repair man), taking pleasure in the sunshine sparkling on the fresh green buds of regenerate trees.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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Somehow, though, James and his gang – a prissy-looking lot who, to be honest, aren't going to go a long way in persuading anyone that classical music is cool – cobble together a raggle-taggle band of kids.
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Frail ghost of the gaudy raggle-taggle that you were-
Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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There is, after all, the idea of running away with the circus, just as there was a time when people ran away with the fairies, or the raggle-taggle gypsies.
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They look raggle-taggle gypsy-ish, or motley fools.
Still breathing jhetley 2008
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Desperate to hold on to her beloved son, Yvonne turns to her sister Leonie (Eileen Arkins), the bastion of rationality in this "raggle-taggle gypsy" family.
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But this was a raggle-taggle army, halfhearted in defense of its position.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Where the caravan guards had got to he did not know, but the men now riding into the commons from both north and south were no raggle-taggle bunch but two dozen men armed with bows, spears, and swords and dressed in good silk.
Spirit Gate 2006
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