tatters
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈtætəz/
  • (America) enPR: tătʹərz, IPA: /ˈtætɚz/
Noun
  1. (plurale tantum) Ragged clothing or fabric, paper, etc.
    • 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299 ↗:
      The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.
Translations Verb
  1. third-person singular form of tatter



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