Meaning of Ragman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.
2. A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
   countable, historical, uncountable
3. A statute of Edward I by which the Scottish gentry and nobility were compelled to swear allegiance to the English king
4. A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.
   historical, uncountable

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Examples

“For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.”

“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”

“He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […]”

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