Meaning

4 senses
  1. A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.

    Lumpensammler

    ве́тошникvétošnik

  2. (countable, historical, uncountable)A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.

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

  4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
collector of refuse:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
collector of refuse:

Origin

From rag + man.

From rag + man.

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Forms

plural: ragmen / ragmans
Singularragman
Pluralragmen / ragmans

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ragman — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto