rummager
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rummager (plural rummagers)
- One who rummages.
- (obsolete) A worker in charge of stowing cargo on a ship.
- 1582, R[ichard] H[akluyt], compiler, Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America, and the Ilands adiacent vnto the Same, […], London: […] [Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC:
- The Master must prouide a perfect mariner called a Romager, to romege and bestow all marchandize in such place as is conuenient.