ruffler
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that ruffles
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an attachment on a sewing machine used for making frills
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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
I marvel," said Raoul, as if he heard her not, "that yonder ruffler comes hither.
From The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott
He showed me how to thread bobbin and needle, how to operate ruffler and tucker, and also how to turn off and on the electric current which operated the machinery.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson
Singer was also the first to invent the "ruffler," a machine for ruffling or gathering cloth, and a device which laid an embroidering thread upon the surface of the cloth under the needle thread.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
But I never yet saw a bookworm that did not pale his fires before a soldier of fortune, nor a scholar that did not follow the courtier and the ruffler with eyes of envy.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
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