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
There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
I marvel," said Raoul, as if he heard her not, "that yonder ruffler comes hither.
From The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott
After the first hackle, called a ruffler, six other finer hackles were often used.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
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
