pure finder

pure finder
Literally, a person (or thing) which does no more than find.

1851: The pure-finders meet with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey — , London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 142 [


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