tattering

Verb (1)

tatter (third-person singular simple present tatters, present participle tattering, simple past and past participle tattered)

1. (transitive) To destroy an article of clothing etc. by shredding.
2. (intransitive) To fall into tatters.

Verb (2)

tatter (third-person singular simple present tatters, present participle tattering, simple past and past participle tattered)

1. (Ireland, dialectal) To go at great speed.
   • “Well, away they wint tattherin’ along the road, makin’ the fire fly out o’ the stones at no rate. So whin I seen they'd no eyes, I knew it was onpossible they could ivir see me, so up I got out o’ the ditch, and afther thim wid me along the road as fast as ivir I culd lay fut to ground.”1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 520

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