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Ragman

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A statute of Edward I by which the Scottish gentry and nobility were compelled to swear allegiance to the English king
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.

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

  2. 2
    A statute issued by Edward I in 1276. countable, historical, uncountable
  3. 3
    A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull. countable, obsolete, uncountable

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

  4. 4
    A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing. historical, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From rag + man.

Etymology 2

Unknown.

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