c. 1843. Carlyle, Hist. Sk. (1898), 242. Deluges of tangled tattery hair. Ibid. (1867) Remin. (1881), II. 21. Books in tattery, ill-bound or unbound condition.
attrib. 1902. Kipling, Just So Stories, 200. The tattery-looking thing across the river is the Man’s salmon-net to catch salmon with.
