Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who arranges or stows the cargo on a ship.
- noun One who searches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who rummages.
- noun (Naut.), obsolete A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written
roomager , andromager .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
rummages . - noun obsolete A
worker in charge ofstowing cargo on aship .
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Examples
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Let this serve you as a lesson, you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of the shadows, wretch!
Les Miserables 2008
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A book rummager and a great reader, with a nature continually in revolt against everything, a seeker of truth and a despiser of popular prejudices, he had a clear and paradoxical manner of expressing his opinions which closed the mouths of self-satisfied fools and of those that were discontented without knowing why.
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871
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A book rummager and a great reader, with a nature continually in revolt against everything, a seeker of truth and a despiser of popular prejudices, he had a clear and paradoxical manner of expressing his opinions which closed the mouths of self-satisfied fools and of those that were discontented without knowing why.
Original Short Stories — Volume 09 Guy de Maupassant 1871
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Let this serve you as a lesson, you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of the shadows, wretch!
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Let this serve you as a lesson, you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of the shadows, wretch!
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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If you're a keen recycler and store - cupboard rummager, as I am, then pimping your cheese on toast with leftovers or stuff you might have lying around anyway is a pastime in itself.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 2010
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A desk-rummager's week's worth of odd lots, and even odder lots, from the housing marketplace:
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A desk-rummager's week's worth of odd lots, and even odder lots, from the housing marketplace:
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