rummager

noun — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From rummage + -er.

One who rummages.

Obsolete A worker in charge of stowing cargo on a ship.

The Master must prouide a perfect mariner called a Romager, to romege and bestow all marchandize in such place as is conuenient.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

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