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- noun obsolete Someone who collected
dog faeces for sale totanneries (which used it as asiccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by old women in Britain in the 18th century. (Reference: Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, 1987, paperback 1996ISBN 1-86046-150-6 chapter 1 page 21.) - noun Used other than as an idiom: see
pure ,finder .
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