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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