Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed.
And fluttered into rags. Milton.

Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty. Fuller.

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. Dryden.

The other zealous rag is the compositor. B. Jonson.

Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag. Spenser.

Our ship was a clipper with every rag set. Lowell.

Rag bolt, an iron pin with barbs on its shank to retain it in place. -- Rag carpet, a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow strips of cloth sewed together, end to end. -- Rag dust, fine particles of ground-up rags, used in making papier-maché and wall papers. -- Rag wheel. (a) A chain wheel; a sprocket wheel. (b) A polishing wheel made of disks of cloth clamped together on a mandrel. -- Rag wool, wool obtained by tearing woolen rags into fine bits; shoddy.