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Definition of Ragpicker
1. Noun. An unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood.
Definition of Ragpicker
1. n. One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
Definition of Ragpicker
1. Noun. A person who scavenges rags and other refuse for a living ¹
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Definition of Ragpicker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragpicker
Literary usage of Ragpicker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural by Theodore Dreiser (1916)
"ragpicker! Look at the ragpicker! [Still struggling to place his bag on his back and
... ragpicker! That's my name. That's what they wanted to know. ..."
2. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... THE ragpicker The ragpicker sits and sorts her rags: Silk and homespun and
threads of gold She plucks to pieces and marks with tags; And her eyes are ..."
3. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"The ragpicker sits in the back of my brain; Keenly she looks me through and through.
One flaming shred I have hidden away— She shall not have my love for ..."
4. "Back from Hell," by Samuel Benney Benson (1918)
"CHAPTER XVIII THE ragpicker THE salvage from a modern battle is a thing which I
suppose few people ever stop to think about. ..."
5. "Back from Hell," by Samuel Benney Benson (1918)
"CHAPTER XVIII THE ragpicker THE salvage from a modern battle is a thing which I
suppose few people ever stop to think about. Where hundreds upon hundreds of ..."
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