ragman

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Definition of ragman

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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”
  2. (countable, historical, uncountable)A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
  3. (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 […]”
  4. (historical, uncountable)A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.

name

  1. 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.

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