pure finder

plural pure finders · alternative pure collector · alternative pure gatherer

1. obsoleteSomeone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.

   The pure-finders meet with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey.

   1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 14

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pure, finder.

   As one commentator has noted, although a pure finder may "induce the purchase or sale of" a security within the meaning of Section 15(a)(1), he or she is not normally a "broker" because he or she effects no transactions.

   2001 July, Howard S. Meyers, Finder's fee agreements: Potential pitfalls and considerations, The Attorney-CPA, published 2002, page 3