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(obsolete) Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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pure finder

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obsolete

(obsolete) Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Japanese Meaning

18～19世紀のイギリスで、貧困層が書籍の革製本に使われるなめし剤として、犬の糞便を収集し、皮革なめし業者に売る職業の人。

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18世紀から19世紀にかけて、犬の糞を集めて製革業者に売り、製本用革の乾燥剤として使われることでかろうじて生計を立てる人がロンドンの通りを歩き回っていた。

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(obsolete) Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pure, finder.

As one commentator has noted, although a pure finder may "induce the purchase or sale of" a security within the meaning of Section 15(a)(1), he or she is not normally a "broker" because he or she effects no transactions.

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pure finders

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