Dictionary entry

Tatter (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tat″ter (?), n. [Icel. tötur, töttur, pl. tötrar, �öttrar; cf. Norw. totra, pl. totror, LG. taltern tatters. √240.] A rag, or a part torn and hanging; — chiefly used in the plural.

Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags. Shak.