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Webster 1913 Edition

Ragman

Rag′man

(răg′man)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Ragmen
(răg′men)
.
A man who collects, or deals in, rags.

Rag′man

,
Noun.
[See
Ragman’s roll
.]
A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ragman

RAG'MAN

,
Noun.
A man who collects or deals in rags, the materials of paper.

Definition 2024

Ragman

Ragman

See also: ragman

English

Proper noun

Ragman

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

ragman

ragman

See also: Ragman

English

Noun

ragman ‎(plural ragmans)

  1. (now historical) A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
  2. (obsolete) A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.
    • c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue:
      He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […].
  3. (now historical) A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.
Related terms

Etymology 2

From rag +‎ man.

Noun

ragman ‎(plural ragmen)

  1. A dealer in rags.

Etymology

Origin unknown.

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