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Ragman   Listen
noun
Ragman  n.  (pl. ragmen)  A man who collects, or deals in, rags.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ragman" Quotes from Famous Books



... your mother get it?" asked another; and this, as Peggy saw with a shock, was pretty Rose Barclay. "Did the ragman bring it around, or did she pick it up in the gutter? Say, Miss Parkins, I wish you'd tell us, 'cause we ...
— Peggy • Laura E. Richards

... "you're a man in authority, and my superior officer; wharfo' thar' can be no scalping between us. But my name's Tom Dowdle, the ragman!" he screamed, suddenly skipping into the thickest of the throng, and sounding a note of defiance; "my name's Tom Dowdle, the ragman, and I'm for any man that insults me! log-leg or leather-breeches, green-shirt or blanket-coat, ...
— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird

... extending under the street, the top soil had become insulated. Hence, by means of this leak powerful currents were passing through this thin layer of moist earth. When a horse went to pass over it he would get a very severe shock. When I arrived I saw coming along the street a ragman with a dilapidated old horse, and one of the boys told him to go over on the other side of the road—which was the place where the current leaked. When the ragman heard this he took that side at ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin



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