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plural ragmen
A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man. quotations examples
For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 14
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
1966, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, in Blonde on Blonde
countable and uncountable, plural ragmans
(historical) A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
(obsolete) A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull. quotations
He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […]
c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue
(historical, uncountable) A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.