English Explanatory Dictionary

pure finder

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

pure finder pure finders pure collector pure gatherer
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