0 in the past, a man who went round the streets of a town to buy old clothes, furniture, and other unwanted things cheaply
The author is vilified, and his work is denounced, and relegated to the ragman.
The horse chose that moment to stop abruptly and an unpleasant encounter with the ragman seemed inevitable.
He was a perfect old ragman except for the very new pink shirt.
It was the ragman who bought them, a penny to the bottle.
For example, if all present are reasonably literate they can play "ragman's roll"!
The ragman takes to an ancestral business and chants the ancient song of his fathers.
Why are we not more curious about the ragman's story and that of the bootblack and the man who keeps the fruit store?
You would have the effect of a ragman at a meeting of emperors.
