"pure finder" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 14",
          "text": "The pure-finders meet with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey.",
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        "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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        "(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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          "text": "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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          "word": "pure collector"
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          "word": "pure gatherer"
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      "word": "pure collector"
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  "word": "pure finder"
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