ruffler

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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, may I perish if it is not the same swashbuckling ruffler I once knew in London town!

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines

Not a ruffler or a wench was in the streets after dark, nor any one save staid citizens upon their business, or the halberdiers of the watch.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Aroint thee," he said to Lochinvar, "for a young ruffler and spit-fire.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Singer was also the first to invent the "ruffler," a machine for ruffling or gathering cloth, and a device which laid an embroidering thread upon the surface of the cloth under the needle thread.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry