2. Verb. (third-person singular of tatter) ¹
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Definition of Tatters
1. tatter [v] - See also: tatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tatters
Literary usage of Tatters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks by Burton Egbert Stevenson, Stevson (1915)
"PRINCE tatters Little Prince tatters has lost his cap! ... "Trifles are trifles;
but serious matters, They must be seen to," says little Prince tatters. ..."
2. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1908)
"tatters was in despair. Never before in his short, petted, doggie life had his
whines, beggings and pleadings been so entirely ignored. ..."
3. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
"Celia Thaxter [1835-1894] PRINCE tatters LITTLE Prince tatters has lost his cap!
Over the hedge he threw it; Into the river it fell ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"THE ANSWER A ROSE, in tatters on the garden path, Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst
His Wrath, Because a sudden wind at twilight's hush Had snapped her ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"A DRAMA IN tatters: A STORY. BY WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE. THE Honorable Lemuel
Quigg was returning from one of the greatest dinners of the season, ..."
6. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"BARK tatters AND CORK HOLES. The loosening processes which set in after a drying
of the outermost tissue layers when the branches have been killed by frost ..."
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