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Ragpicker

noun
1.
An unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood.



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ragpicker's disease


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"Ragpicker" Quotes from Famous Books



... For days old Genendel, the ragpicker, had prophetically been showing about the village the rising knobs of his knotting rheumatic knuckles, ill omen of storm or havoc. A star had shot down one night, as white and sardonic as a Cossack's grin and almost with a hiss behind it. Mosher, returning from a peddling tour to a ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst


Words linked to "Ragpicker" :   unskilled person, ragpicker's disease


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