Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pure finder

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English

Syllables: pure find-er
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Obsolete

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pure, finder.

Example Sentences

"The pure-finders meet with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey."
"As one commentator has noted, although a pure finder may "induce the purchase or sale of" a security within the meaning of Section 15(a)(1), he or she is not normally a "broker" because he or she effects no transactions."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

pure finders (plural) pure collector (alternative) pure gatherer (alternative)

Questions

What does pure finder mean?: 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.

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