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Definition of Frayed
1. Adjective. Worn away or tattered along the edges. "Frayed cuffs"
Definition of Frayed
1. Verb. (past of fray) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frayed
1. fray [v] - See also: fray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frayed
Literary usage of Frayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Book Prices Current (1917)
"Bds. (a few margins frayed, lacking signatures Ai. 2 and 7, A., Feb. 5, '17.
(125) $7.00. Bi of Table and a few leaves of Interpretationes), Kinsley, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Frazzled out (American), used in the Southern States. frayed, " frizzled," or
worn out. " Bimeby," continued the old man, "de switches dey got ..."
3. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"frayed out leaf for the beginning of a basket. the coil. These are all plaited
down to the base of the basket where it is finished off in various ..."
4. Letters of Celia Thaxter by Celia Thaxter (1895)
"I send a bit of the wreck's sail; see how strong and new it was, and how the
edges are frayed with the fearful chafing ..."
5. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"time when Guy of Warwick and his tutor in chivalry, Heraud of Arden, still roamed
the forest in search of the wild ox and savage boar that frayed the ..."
6. The Riverside Magazine for Young People by Horace Elisha Scudder (1870)
"See," said Lucy, mischievously pointing to Frank's bag, " huw it is stained and
frayed already, — not with the game he has brought home ..."
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