NOUN
- an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood
How To Use ragpicker In A Sentence
- The hair of their heads and faces grew long and shaggy, while their garments would have disgusted a ragpicker. In a Far Country
- This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker.
- His father still works as a ragpicker, pushing his handcart around the city streets, collecting scraps of discarded cloth that he sells to a contractor.
- Since then, his wife, a ragpicker, found two other broken models as she scoured the garbage dump, and he paid to have them repaired. India: Toilets Are Scarce, And Highly Desirable
- But what if the artist were to involve the locals, auction off the works and donate the proceeds back to the ragpicker community? 'Waste Land,' Documentary on Brooklyn Artist and Rio's Garbage Pickers (VIDEO)
- Floods in Orissa, a ragpicker on a beach, celebrations for the Prime Minister's birthday and more. India in Pictures
- Possible death mask of Shakespeare found in ragpicker’s shop. Off to Class « So Many Books
- This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker.
- Left, a ragpicker walked through garbage in search of recyclable material at a municipal waste dump near the eastern Indian city of Siliguri. India's Stunted Growth
- More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers, swill-gatherers, bootblacks.