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ragman
noun 4name 1
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2RAGMAN + NOUN
broches, rynges
PREP.
up, with
Definitions
noun
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.
Oh, the ragman draws circles / Up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was / But I know that he don't talk
noun
1
A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
2
A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.
He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […]
3
A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.
name
1
A statute of Edward I by which the Scottish gentry and nobility were compelled to swear allegiance to the English king
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For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
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Oh, the ragman draws circles / Up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was / But I know that he don't talk
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He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […]
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