pure finder

Definitions

1. 1

   Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for…

   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.

   • The pure-finders meet with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   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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