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Ruffler   Listen
noun
Ruffler  n.  
1.
One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. "Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers."
2.
That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.





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"Ruffler" Quotes from Famous Books



... was permitted to quit this country, but not to return to England during the unexpired term of his sentence of transportation, which was for seven years. Eight convicts were pardoned on condition of their serving in the New South Wales corps until regularly discharged therefrom. James Larra, James Ruffler, and Richard Partridge (convicts for life), received a conditional pardon, or (as was the term among themselves on this occasion) were made free on the ground, to enable them to become settlers; as were ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins


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