ragpicker in English

noun
1
a person who collects and sells rags.
His father still works as a ragpicker , pushing his handcart around the city streets, collecting scraps of discarded cloth that he sells to a contractor.

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1. His wife was a ragpicker and a Bawd, but she had plenty of shrewdness

2. "I'll give you four pennies for your A-B-C book," said a ragpicker who stood by.