ragman

plural ragmen

1. A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.

   For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.

   1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 14

   1 more example

   Oh, the ragman draws circles / Up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was / But I know that he don't talk

   1966, Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, in Blonde on Blonde

plural ragmans

1. countablehistoricaluncountableA statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
2. countableobsoleteuncountableA document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.

   He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […]

   c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue

3. historicaluncountableA game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.

1. A statute of Edward I by which the Scottish gentry and nobility were compelled to swear allegiance to the English king