In plural. Tattered or ragged clothes. Frequently in in rags.

Chiefly Scottish. A rag, a scrap of cloth; a ragged or shabby item of clothing. Usually in plural. Now rare.

A shred of cloth; in plural. Rags, tatters. Also transferred and figurative. A scrap, fragment. Obsolete exc. dialect.

A fragment or strip of textile material cut or torn off; one or more fibres torn from a piece of cloth; a small piece of cloth, a fragment of…

Caithness. In plural. Rags, tatters.