different between ragman vs dragman

English

Etymology 1

From rag +? man.

Noun

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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

ragman (countable and uncountable, plural ragmans)

1. (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 rau?te with his ragman · rynges and broches […]

3. (historical, uncountable) A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.

Related terms

• ragman roll, Ragman's Roll

Anagrams

• Garman, granma, mangar, marang

English

Etymology

drag +? -man

Noun

dragman (plural dragmen)

1. A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
   • 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ

     great riots committed by the foresters and Welsh upon the dragmen of Severn , hewing all their boats to pieces , and drowning the bargemen in a warlike posture

References

dragman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Grandma, grandam, grandma