Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who operates a machine known in England as devil and in the United States as rag-picker or shoddy-picker.
  • noun One who attends a hard-waste breaker in a cotton-factory.
  • noun A rag-shaking machine.
  • noun One given to patient and laborious research.

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