ragman
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of ragman
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.
“For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.”
“Oh, the ragman draws circles / Up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was / But I know that he don't talk”
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noun
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A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.
“For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.”
“Oh, the ragman draws circles / Up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was / But I know that he don't talk”
- (countable, historical, uncountable)A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.
“He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […]”
- (historical, uncountable)A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.
name
- A statute of Edward I by which the Scottish gentry and nobility were compelled to swear allegiance to the English king
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From rag + man.
Anagrams of ragman
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