Ragpicker

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who makes a living scavenging rags and other refuse.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who scavenges rags and other refuse for a living
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who goes about to collect rags, bones, and other waste articles of some little value, from streets, ashpits, dunghills, etc.
  • n. A machine for tearing and pulling to shreds rags, yarns, hosiery, old carpet, and other waste, to reduce them to cotton or wool staple; a shoddy-machine.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    unskilled person   
    Cross Reference
    rag-pickers' disease   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ragman    chiffonnier    bunter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    raker    plant-life    twin-brother    ex-queen    conde   
     
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