raftrope (raftrop)

A rope about three fathoms long, with an eye-splice, used for stringing seal-blubber to be towed to a whaling-ve el. A raft-rope is also sometimes used by a blubber-logged ve el for rafting or towing 9. A farthing. Hall i well. [Eng. cant.] whale-blubber. The horse-pieces [blubber of the sea-elephant] are strung on a raft - rope and taken to the edge of the surf. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 119. raftsman (rafts'man), n.; pl. raftsmen (-men). [ raft's , po . of raft1 , + man .] A man employed in the management of a raft. rafty (raf'ti), a . [ raft3 + -yl.] 1. Musty; stale.-2. Damp; muggy.-3. High-tempered; violent. [Prov. Eng. in all senses.] ragl (rag), n. and a. [ the rough coat of a horse (as if from an AS. noun, but prob. from the Scand. adj.); IMG:content-1564.png:[blocks in formation] Jac. 'Twere good she had a little foolish money To rub the time away with. Host . Not a denier. Not a rag , Beau, and Fl., Captain, iv. 2. 10t. A herd of colts. Strutt. [Prov. Eng.]-11. In type - founding, the bur or rough edge left on imperfectly finished type. - Coral rag, one of the limestones of the Middle Oolite, consisting in part of continuous beds of petrified corals. - Hag, tag, and ragt. See hag3.- Kentish rag. See Kentish. Litmus on rags. See litmus. - Rag, tag, and bobtail, a rabble; everybody indiscriminately. See rag - tag. [Colloq.]-Rowley rag, a basaltic rock occurring in the South Stafford shire coal-field, much quarried for road-mending. Seerag stone. II. a . Made of or with rags; formed from or consisting of refuse pieces or fragments of cloth: as, rag pulp for paper-making; a rag carpet.Rag baby. (a) A doll made entirely of rags or scraps of cloth, usually in a very artle manner. political slang , the paper currency of the government; (b) In U. S. greenback money: so called reference to the contention of the Greenback party, before and after the resumption of specie payments in 1879, in favor of making such money a full legal tender for the national debt and all other purposes. Fortunately, the "specie basis" of the national banks is now chiefly paper-the rag - baby -three hundred and forty-six millions of greenbacks! N. A. Rev. , CXLI. 207. Rag carpet, a cheap kind of carpeting woven with strips or shreds of woolen and other cloth, usually from wornout garments, for the weft. A better kind is made with strips of list from new cloth, when it is also called list carpet. - Rag money, rag currency, paper money; cir culating notes i ued by United States banks or by the government: so called in depreciation or contempt, in allusion to the origin of the material, to the ragged appearance of paper money when much handled, and to its intrinsic worthle ne . [Slang.] All true Democrats were clamorous for "hard-money" and against rag - money . The Nation , July 29, 1875, p. 66. Rag paper. See paper . ragl (rag), v.; pret. and pp. ragged, ppr. ragging. [ rag Leather thus leisurely tanned and turned many times in the fat will prove serviceable, which otherwise will quickly fleet and rag out . Fuller , Worthies, Middle sex, II. 312. 2. To dre ; deck one's self: in the phrase to rag out, to dre in one's best. [Slang, U. S.] A finely dre ed woman rags out. S. Boules, Our New West, p. 506. II. trans . 1. To make ragged; abrade; give a ragged appearance to, as in the rough-dre ing of the face of a grindstone. In straggling or ragging [a grindstone] the stone is kept running as usual. O. Byrne , Artisan's Handbook, p. 422. 2. In mining , to separate by ragging or with the aid of the ragging-hammer. See ragging , 2. rag2 (rag), v . t .; pret. and pp. ragged , ppr. rag ging. [Prob. rag1 , n ., 5. In another view, rægja , calumniate, = AS. wrēgan , accuse: see wray .] To banter; badger; rail at; irritate; torment. Compare bullyrag . [Local.] out. To rag a man is good Lincoln shire for chaff or tease. At school, to get a boy into a rage was called getting his rag N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 38. rag3 (rag), n. [ hregg , storm and rain.] A drizzling rain. [Prov. Eng.]