Definitions for tatter

tatter tat·ter

Spelling: [tat-er]
IPA: /ˈtæt ər/

Tatter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in tatter (aerttt).

Definitions for tatter

noun

  1. a torn piece hanging loose from the main part, as of a garment or flag.
  2. a separate torn piece; shred.
  3. tatters, torn or ragged clothing:
  4. a person who does tatting, especially as an occupation.

verb (used with object)

  1. to tear or wear to tatters.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become ragged.

Origin of tatter

1375-1425; (noun) late Middle English Old Norse tǫturr rag, tatter; akin to Old English tætteca rag, shred; (v.) back formation from tattered

Examples for tatter

You go round by tatter Brook, says he, an climb the hill from behind.

Whether it was the red flag that floated at the top or the thing itself he sought to tatter is uncertain.

It had gone; no trace was left, not a tatter of cloth, not a spot of blood, nothing.

But, search as one will, not a crust or a tatter turns up in her history!

She wished to discover what remnant, tatter or shred of her early faith still clung about her.

In the little brass bowl lay a blood-stained fragment of grayish hair attached to a tatter of skin.

Why may you not have saved that tatter of the old gown twice seven years, then?

Was a tatter't boggart, in a field, an' that they left behind.

Now quite unexpectedly we saw the "tatter of scarlet" from a new angle.

Only here and there toward its lower rim a tatter in it revealed the giant's rugged brown muscle of volcanic rock.

Word Value for tatter
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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