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▪ I. ˈragging, vbl. n.1 rare—1. [f. rag v.1] concr. Ragged edges or projections.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xvi, To Justifie the Mold, and clear it from Ragging. ▪ II. ˈragging, vbl. n.2 [f. rag v.2] The action of scolding, annoying, etc.; an instance of this. Also attrib.
1796Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3) s.v. Rag, She gave him a good ragging. 1888E. Dowson Let. Nov. (1967) 19 After a good deal of ragging with Chitty J. two days ago, the affair was settled. 1893Daily News 25 Sept. 5/3 Commemoration Week exercises at Oxford furnished..the most audacious examples of ‘ragging’. 1899T. M. Ellis Three Cat's-eye Rings 114 What a ragging we should get! 1920Chambers's Jrnl. 1 May 337/1 An ugly ragging mood was astir. 1932Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 12/4 Ragging in the army, such as we have at home (this was said just after one of the so-called ‘ragging scandals’ in the Guards) would be impossible here. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 2 May 31, I miss the comradeship, the ragging, the talks in Mess. ▪ III. ragging, vbl. n.3 [f. rag v.3] 1. (See quot. and cf. rag v.3)
1875Ure's Dict. Arts II. 78 Ragging..consists simply in reducing the stones to a smaller size, and rejecting as many of the sterile stones as can be readily picked out. attrib.1875Ure's Dict. Arts II. 76 The ragging hammer should..be brought into free requisition. 1878Ibid. IV. (Suppl.) 618 Steel ragging sledge, 7lb. weight. 2. Ore of a certain class (see quots.). Also pl.
1860C. Tomlinson Useful Arts & Manuf. 2nd Ser. Dressing ores 10 That portion [of a dredging] occupying the bottom of the sieve, called ragging, which is also in a marketable state. 1878Ure's Dict. Arts IV. (Suppl.) 618 The ores are divided into four classes: (1) Cobbed ore; (2) Sieve raggings; (3) Fine Raggings; (4) Slimes. 1890Lock Mining & Ore-dressing Mach. 395 The mixed product of the jiggers..called chatts or ragging, must be separately treated. 3. = straggling vbl. n.2
1850[see straggling vbl. n.2]. ▪ IV. ˈragging, vbl. n.4 orig. U.S. [f. rag v.5] The act or practice of playing, singing, or dancing in ragtime.
1899[see rag n.5 1]. 1913Collier's Mag. 15 Feb. 6/2 The worst of these dance halls..are habitually frequented by people of the fashionable and so-called decent class, who go..for the purpose of joining in the ‘ragging’. 1914‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 17 Ragging, the act of doing the ‘Rag’. 1936Harper's Mag. 3 Apr. 570/2 ‘Jamming’, ‘cat⁓time’, ‘swing’, ‘riffing’, ‘getting off’, ‘going to town’, ‘ragging’, ‘gut-bucketing’,..are names for the hot performance, which is the heart and soul of jazz. 1958Life (Internat. ed.) 13 Oct. 96/2 The rhythm was called ragtime (after a Negro clog dance sometimes called ‘ragging’). |