Definition of Ragpickers

1. Noun. (plural of ragpicker) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ragpickers

1. ragpicker [n] - See also: ragpicker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragpickers

raglan sleeve
raglans
ragmans
ragmatical
ragmen
ragment
ragments
ragout
ragouted
ragouting
ragouts
ragpicker
ragpicker's disease
ragpickers (current term)
rags
rags and tatters
rags to riches
ragsorter
ragsorter's disease
ragstone
ragstones
ragtag
ragtag and bobtail
ragtags
ragtime
ragtimer
ragtimers
ragtimes

Literary usage of Ragpickers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anecdotes and Examples Illustrating the Catholic Catechism by Francis Spirago (1904)
"A QUEEN REBUKES ragpickers We must not allow animals to be tormented. One day the queen of the Belgians, when driving out, saw two ragpickers mercilessly ..."

2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Impudence — Outcasts of the Bowery — Beer Gardens — Slums of the Bowery — Night Scenes on the Streets — Pickpockets and Crooks — ragpickers and their ..."

3. Patriotism and Popular Education ...: The Whole Discourse Being in the Form by Henry Arthur Jones (1920)
"Plainly because we have been producing and training school teachers and ragpickers in wrong proportions, having regard to the amounts and kinds of work ..."

4. Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1912 by Robert Ferdinand Wagner, George Moses Price, Holbrook Fitz-John Porter, Violet Leonard Pike, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark, Edward Ewing Pratt (1912)
"purify them before they are handled by the men, and before they run them through the ragpickers, and before the machines pick them up, ..."

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