All 5 Uses
vagrant
in
East of Eden
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- If she did it again she found herself in jail, charged with vagrancy and public prostitution.†
Chpt 6 *
- Adam was picked up for vagrancy.†
Chpt 7
- Near Tallahassee he was picked up by sheriff's men, judged vagrant, and put on a road gang.†
Chpt 7vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
- Then the hobo camps are raided and vagrants brought in and hotel registers scrutinized.†
Chpt 8vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
- I was a tramp and I got taken up for vagrancy and put on a road gang—leg irons at night.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(vagrant) someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, and especially long ago, you may see vagrant used to emphasize that a poor person wanders from place to place. Even more rarely, it can describe an animal as being in a place it usually is not, or to describe anything that varies or seems random such as the seeming haphazard direction in which a certain weed spreads, or the fleeting quality of something smelled for only an instant.