Ragpicker

Word RAGPICKER
Character 9
Hyphenation rag pick er
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Ragpicker"

What do we mean by ragpicker?

One who makes a living scavenging rags and other refuse. noun

One who goes about to collect rags, bones, and other waste articles of some little value, from streets, ashpits, dunghills, etc. noun

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. noun

One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets. noun

A person who scavenges rags and other refuse for a living noun

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

A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man (UK) or ragman (US).

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The word "ragpicker" in example sentences

Possible death mask of Shakespeare found in ragpicker’s shop. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The ragpicker's basket is the hyphen between rags and paper, and the ragpicker is the hyphen between the beggar and the philosopher. ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)

The hair of their heads and faces grew long and shaggy, while their garments would have disgusted a ragpicker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Floods in Orissa, a ragpicker on a beach, celebrations for the Prime Minister's birthday and more. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Left, a ragpicker walked through garbage in search of recyclable material at a municipal waste dump near the eastern Indian city of Siliguri. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Since then, his wife, a ragpicker, found two other broken models as she scoured the garbage dump, and he paid to have them repaired. ❋ AP (2010)

But what if the artist were to involve the locals, auction off the works and donate the proceeds back to the ragpicker community? ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

And what he told them will make you safer, because you look more like a thirteen-year-old ragpicker than a fifteen-year-old nobleman. ❋ Hilari Bell (2009)

Since the appropriated voice of the king's subject is clearly that of the ragpicker, who in playing the part of the beneficent king "swears solemnly that he will make his people happy," the entire passage becomes a different kind of dramatization of "the wine talking." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Baudelaire's initial call for the "equal treatment" of wine seeks to reverse the condition of neglect to which it is consigned in the Physiology of Taste, a condition it shares with the ragpicker-king of "Le Vin des chiffoniers," obviously, but also with Hoffman and ❋ Unknown (2007)

All belonged to that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"[The Bal Sabha] doesn't tell us what to do," says Anuj Chowdhury, a 14-year-old ragpicker. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Triveni Devi, a ragpicker who lives with her husband and two children in an East Delhi slum, has a food card that entitles her to buy grain at subsidized prices from the neighborhood ration shop. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Rumsfeld calls Americans, including Iraqi veterens “Nazis” and terrorist sympathizers and anti-American, Rush Limbaugh denegrates blacks, Mexicans, women, Muslims, Neil Boortz calls Mohammed a “ragpicker” and a republofascist has the nutz to point a finger and complain about “dirt” and “character assassination”. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Office trash cans with staples and paper clips need to be either lockable or placed out of reach of your little ragpicker. ❋ Gary Greenberg (2004)

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