Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tatter \Tat"ter\, v. t. [p. p. {Tattered}.]
   To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past
   participle as an adjective.

         Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair. --Pope.

Source : WordNet®

tattered
     adj 1: worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man
            in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in
            tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a
            tatterdemalion prince" [syn: {tatterdemalion}]
     2: ruined or disrupted; "our shattered dreams of peace and
        prosperity"; "a tattered remnant of its former strength";
        "my torn and tattered past" [syn: {shattered}]