rummager

English

Etymology

From rummage +‎ -er.

Noun

rummager (plural rummagers)

1. One who rummages.
2. (obsolete) A worker in charge of stowing cargo on a ship.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     The Master must prouide a perfect mariner called a Romager, to romege and bestow all marchandize in such place as is conuenient.

Alternative forms

• (ship worker): romager, roomager (obsolete)

Anagrams

• Margerum