Meaning of toe-rag | Babel Free

Definitions

A cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock; a footwrap.

archaic

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Examples

“Stockings being unknown, some luxurious men wrapped round their feet a piece of old shirting, called, in language more expressive than elegant, a “toe-rag”.”

“One of his feet had been bleeding, I could see from his ‘toe-rag,’ which stuck out on one side.”

“Steady old Väinämöinen / yonder crept with no shoes on / without toe-rags he tiptoed […].”

““I’ll bet ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie.”

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