dustman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person employed to collect household refuse; an old-fashioned British term for a refuse collector

   The dustman emptied the bins before sunrise.

An English compound of dust and man. Dust once referred broadly to household refuse, including ash and cinders, so a dustman was the worker who removed it.

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