ragpicker

IPA: rˈægpɪkɝ

A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man (UK) or ragman (US).

Examples of "ragpicker" in Sentences

Possible death mask of Shakespeare found in ragpicker’s shop.
Floods in Orissa, a ragpicker on a beach, celebrations for the Prime Minister's birthday and more.
The hair of their heads and faces grew long and shaggy, while their garments would have disgusted a ragpicker.
But what if the artist were to involve the locals, auction off the works and donate the proceeds back to the ragpicker community?
The ragpicker's basket is the hyphen between rags and paper, and the ragpicker is the hyphen between the beggar and the philosopher.
Since then, his wife, a ragpicker, found two other broken models as she scoured the garbage dump, and he paid to have them repaired.
Left, a ragpicker walked through garbage in search of recyclable material at a municipal waste dump near the eastern Indian city of Siliguri.