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
The ruffling is sometimes very nice and interesting and often gives the ruffler a good position in the glorious company of earlier rufflers——" "I shouldn't be satisfied with anything like that.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
He showed me how to thread bobbin and needle, how to operate ruffler and tucker, and also how to turn off and on the electric current which operated the machinery.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson
Now—now in the crib, where a ruffler may lie, Without fear that the traps should distress him, With a drop in the mouth, and a drop in the eye, Here's to Gentleman George,—God bless him!
From Paul Clifford — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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 William Henry Doolittle
