ruffler

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Then depart from the house with as little shame as a ruffler and a churl may have.

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May

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

The poor ruffler was fallen into meditation, and noted not that his nag did no more than amble.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael

After the first hackle, called a ruffler, six other finer hackles were often used.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse