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ragmans

ragmans is the plural of ragman.

Meaning of ragman

Noun (1)

ragman (plural ragmen)

  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.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 14

Noun (2)

ragman (countable and uncountable, plural ragmans)

  1. (historical) A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
  2. (obsolete) 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 […]c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue
  3. (historical, uncountable) A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.

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Questions about ragmans

What is ragmans the plural of?
Ragmans is the plural of ragman.

Words near ragmans in the dictionary

  1. Raglin
  2. Raglins
  3. ragman
  4. ragman roll
  5. ragman rolls
  6. ragmans
  7. ragmatical
  8. ragmen
  9. ragmuffin
  10. ragmuffins
  11. Ragnarok

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