ragpicker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ragpicker
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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
A Tribune story in 1936 showed a ragpicker in a gutter scooping up Roosevelt buttons which Party workers presumably could not persuade anybody to wear.
From Time Magazine Archive
I didn’t say, I don’t want to become an expert ragpicker.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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