Meanings of rag-and-bone man in English

The next day Anna fetched a rag-and-bone man who took the lot.

You'd think she got all her clothes from the rag-and-bone man.

The industry is going through a revolution right now, from the rag-and-bone man through to the machine.

The two men made an efficient partnership, if an ironic one: an engineer whose nature was to build, a rag-and-bone man whose passion was destruction.

Perhaps there was something else behind the murder of the Rag-and-bone Man, something personal.

Bond looked at Hydt's face as the Rag-and-bone Man stared down at the victims.

What could the Rag-and-bone Man possibly have in mind?

The Rag-and-bone Man asked pleasantly, 'Will this do?'

As in rag-and-bone men?' she asked.

Galton and Simpson's Steptoe and Son, an even more miserable series concerning filthy, frustrated rag-and-bone men, played to huge audiences from 1962 to 1974.