ragpicker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ragpicker
Example Sentences
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Lou Gilbert isa gentle ragpicker on the Manhattan waterfront whose attempt to help a girl leads to his own destruction in Across the River.
From Time Magazine Archive
Embarrassed by the fall of his onetime classmate, "he" crushes the few hesitant attempts of the ragpicker and his wife to create a friendship.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father was a junkman, or "ragpicker," as Gunn puts it.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was as frugal as a ragpicker, carefully kept a record of each shilling tip, constantly worried about money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never as the ditch-digger and ragpicker Mrs. Lapham was always suggesting to him.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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