Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Scald-rag
subs. phr. (old).—A dyer.
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1630. TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes, II. 165. As much impeachment as to cal a Iustice of the Peace, a Beadle; a Dyer, a SCALDRAGGE; or a Fishmonger, a seller of Gubbins.
