(plural only) Ragged clothing or fabric, paper, etc.

plural of tatter

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tatter

Badly torn in many places; in shreds. / (figuratively) Ruined, destroyed, wrecked.

A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.

(transitive) To destroy an article of clothing etc. by shredding. / (intransitive) To fall into tatters.

A person engaged in tatting.

Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged. / Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged. / (obsolete) Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.

simple past tense and past participle of tatter

present participle of tatter